Chapter EIGHT Writing Revelation : The Book of Margery Kempe

This essay addresses intersections of gender and genre by exploring the complex ways in which the Book of Margery Kempe draws on other devotional texts, particularly those of Hilton and Rolle, on the lives of holy women, and on Kempe's own social and cultural contexts, in order to shape a uniqu...

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Main Author: Saunders, Corinne (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Cambridge Boydell & Brewer 2019
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