Encountering the Book of Margery Kempe by Laura Kalas (English) Paperback Book

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This innovative volume harnesses the interdisciplinarity and flexibility of 'encounter' to provide dynamic readings The Book of Margery Kempe in the twenty-first century. Incorporating thirteen original chapters and a critical introduction, it offers myriad exciting approaches to this important and ever-surprising medieval text.

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This innovative critical volume brings the study of Margery Kempe into the twenty-first century. Structured around four categories of 'encounter' - textual, internal, external and performative - the volume offers a capacious exploration of The Book of Margery Kempe, characterised by multiple complementary and dissonant approaches. It employs a multiplicity of scholarly and critical lenses, including the intertextual history of medieval women's literary culture, medical humanities, history of science, digital humanities, literary criticism, oral history, the global Middle Ages, archival research and creative re-imagining. Revealing several new discoveries about Margery Kempe and her Book in its global contexts, and offering multiple ways of reading the Book in the modern world, it will be an essential companion for years to come.

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This innovative volume demonstrates the richness and diversity of Margery Kempe studies in the twenty-first century. Through multiple, probing 'encounters', it generates and inspires interdisciplinary, overlapping, supportive, disruptive, and exploratory theoretical and creative approaches to the Book, while serving as an invaluable critical companion. Structured around four categories of encounter - textual, internal, external, and performative - the volume suggests thematic threads while also revealing how The Book of Margery Kempe resists strict categorisation. The chapters, written by leading scholars in Margery Kempe studies, cover a broad range of approaches, including theories of psychoanalysis, emotion, ecocriticism, autobiography, post-structuralism, and performance. They also adopt diverse methodologies, drawn from the medical humanities, history of science, history of medieval women's literary culture, digital humanities, literary criticism, oral history, the Global Middle Ages, archival discovery, and creative re-imagining. Taken together, these rich, multifarious encounters with the Book capture its remarkable depth and variety. Encounters are dynamic, but they always require negotiation and reciprocity.Examining how encountering Kempe and her Book is a multi-way process, this volume paves the way for future, critical work.

Author Biography

Laura Kalas is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Swansea UniversityLaura Varnam is Lecturer in Old and Middle English Literature at University College, Oxford

Table of Contents

Introduction: Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe in the twenty-first century – Laura Kalas and Laura Varnam Part I: Textual encounters1 Before Margery: The Book of Margery Kempe and its antecedents – Diane Watt 2 The intertextual dialogue and conversational theology of Mechthild of Hackeborn and Margery Kempe – Liz Herbert McAvoy and Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa 3 The prayers of Margery Kempe: a reassessment – Josephine A. Koster Part II: Internal encounters4 The Book of Margery Kempe: autobiography in the third person – Ruth Evans5 Margery Kempe as de-facement – Johannes Wolf6 Margery Kempe, oral history, and the value of intersubjectivity – Katherine J. Lewis7 'A booke of hyr felyngys': exemplarity and Margery Kempe's encounters of the heart – Laura VarnamPart III: Encountering the world8 Margery Kempe's home town and worthy kin – Susan Maddock9 A women's network in fifteenth-century Rome: Margery Kempe encounters 'Margaret Florentyne' – Anthony Bale and Daniela Giosuè10 Margery Kempe, racialised soundscapes, sonic warss and cosmopolitan Jerusalem – Dorothy Kim11 The materialisation of Book II: elements of Margery Kempe's world – Laura KalasPart IV: Performative encounters12 Writing performed lives: Margery Kempe meets Marina Abramovic – Sarah Salih13 Recreating and reassessing Margery and Julian's encounter – Tara WilliamsIndex

Review

'The essays gathered in the volume evince our growing understanding of the artistry that undergirds a text that was once considered important but possibly artless. It is this artistry, this sure sense of the dynamics of narrative, of voice, of social and religious conventions and culture, that holds the volume itself together, giving it the implicit unity a gifted author provides to her or his later readers....This is a good volume of essays with which to continue the process of exploration and the joys of discovery.'Lynn Staley, Harrington and Shirley Drake Professor of the Humanities, Colgate University, The Medieval Review -- .

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This innovative critical volume brings the study of Margery Kempe into the twenty-first century. Structured around four categories of 'encounter' -- textual, internal, external and performative -- the volume offers a capacious exploration of The Book of Margery Kempe , characterised by multiple complementary and dissonant approaches. It employs a multiplicity of scholarly and critical lenses, including the intertextual history of medieval women's literary culture, medical humanities, history of science, digital humanities, literary criticism, oral history, the global Middle Ages, archival research and creative re-imagining. Revealing several new discoveries about Margery Kempe and her Book in its global contexts, and offering multiple ways of reading the Book in the modern world, it will be an essential companion for years to come.

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'... the very importance of the Book, an importance gestured to in each of these essays, demands that we come to terms with its history--scholarly, paleographical, and cultural--in order to think through the questions it poses and the appeal it has. This is a good volume of essays with which to continue the process of exploration and the joys of discovery.'The Medieval Review

Details ISBN1526171589 Pages 328 Publisher Manchester University Press Series Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 1526171589 ISBN-13 9781526171580 Format Paperback DEWEY 248.22092 Imprint Manchester University Press Place of Publication Manchester Country of Publication United Kingdom Author Laura Varnam Edited by Laura Varnam Publication Date 2023-04-11 NZ Release Date 2023-04-11 UK Release Date 2023-04-11 Audience General AU Release Date 2023-08-16 We've got this

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