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Item Details
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THE BOOK OF MARGERY KEMPE
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| By: |
Barry Windeatt (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£61.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0582304601 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780582304604 |
| Publisher: |
PEARSON EDUCATION LIMITED |
| Pub. date: |
3 December, 1999 |
| Series: |
Longman Annotated Texts |
| Pages: |
496 |
| Language: |
English, Multiple languages |
| Description: |
This text is the earliest surviving autobiography in English: the account of the life, travels and revelations of Margery Kempe. The introduction provides information and contexts for interpretation on a text central to courses on women's studies, women's history, and mediaevel literature. |
| Synopsis: |
This is the first edition for sixty years of the earliest surviving autobiography in English, the unique account (dated 1436-8) of the extraordinary life, travels and revelations of Margery Kempe, a Norfolk housewife and mother, pilgrim, prophet and visionary. For the first time the original text is presented in an accessible form for modern readers, with full on-page glossing and a glossary of common words. The unrivalled on-page annotation provides the first commentary of its kind on the Book, bringing together the insights of scholarship on Kempe since the discovery of the manuscript in 1934, and setting the life of a remarkable Englishwoman in the social, political and spiritual context of her times. An introduction provides up-to-date information and contexts for interpretation of a text central to courses on women's studies, women's history, and medieval literature. There is also a chronology of Kempe's life, a helpful summary analysis of the chapters, and a full bibliography, in this new edition of a work now accepted as among the most compelling and significant English texts of the Middle Ages. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Longman |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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