Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions
Author | : Lynn Staley |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 027104022X |
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Author | : Lynn Staley |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 027104022X |
Author | : Margery Kempe |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0140432515 |
The story of the eventful and controversial life of Margery Kempe - wife, mother, businesswoman, pilgrim and visionary - is the earliest surviving autobiography in English. Here Kempe (c.1373-c.1440) recounts in vivid, unembarrassed detail the madness that followed the birth of the first of her fourteen children, the failure of her brewery business, her dramatic call to the spiritual life, her visions and uncontrollable tears, the struggle to convert her husband to a vow of chastity and her pilgrimages to Europe and the Holy Land. Margery Kempe could not read or write, and dictated her remarkable story late in life. It remains an extraordinary record of human faith and a portrait of a medieval woman of unforgettable character and courage.
Author | : Carolyn Dinshaw |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1999-09-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822323655 |
DIVHow medieval texts represent and reproduce normative heterosexual identities./div
Author | : Rosemary Woolf |
Publisher | : Oxford : Clarendon P. |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Catherine Sanok |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2007-02-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812239865 |
Her Life Historical offers a major reconsideration of one of the most popular narrative forms in late medieval England—the lives of female saints—and one of the period's primary modes of interpretation—exemplarity. With lucidity and insight, Catherine Sanok shows that saints' legends served as vehicles for complex considerations of historical difference and continuity in an era of political crisis and social change. At the same time, they played a significant role in women's increasing visibility in late medieval literary culture by imagining a specifically feminine audience. Sanok proposes a new way to understand exemplarity—the repeated injunction to imitate the saints—not simply as a prescriptive mode of reading but as an encouragement to historical reflection. With groundbreaking originality, she argues that late medieval writers and readers used religious narrative, and specifically the legends of female saints, to think about the historicity of their own ethical lives and of the communities they inhabited. She explains how these narratives were used in the fifteenth century to negotiate the urgent social concerns occasioned by political instability and dynastic conflict, by the threat of heresy and the changing status of public religion, and by new kinds of social mobility and forms of collective identity. Her Life Historical also offers a fresh account of how women came to be visible participants in late medieval literary culture. The expectation that they formed a distinct audience for saints' lives and moral literature allowed medieval women to surface in the historical record as book owners, patrons, and readers. Saints' lives thereby helped to invent the idea of a gendered audience with a privileged affiliation and a specific response to a given narrative tradition.
Author | : Margaret Walters |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2005-10-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019280510X |
This book provides an historical account of feminism, exploring its earliest roots and key issues such as voting rights and the liberation of the sixties. Margaret Walters brings the subject completely up to date by providing a global analysis of the situation of women, from Europe and the United States to Third World countries.
Author | : Norman P. Tanner |
Publisher | : PIMS |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780888440662 |
Author | : Katharine W. Jager |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2019-07-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3030183343 |
Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages explores the formal composition, public performance, and popular reception of vernacular poetry, music, and prose within late medieval French and English cultures. This collection of essays considers the extra-literary and extra-textual methods by which vernacular forms and genres were obtained and examines the roles that performance and orality play in the reception and dissemination of those genres, arguing that late medieval vernacular forms can be used to delineate the interests and perspectives of the subaltern. Via an interdisciplinary approach, contributors use theories of multimodality, translation, manuscript studies, sound studies, gender studies, and activist New Formalism to address how and for whom popular, vernacular medieval forms were made.
Author | : Jessica Barr |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2020-04-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0472126350 |
Intimate Reading: Textual Encounters in Medieval Women’s Visions and Vitae explores the ways that women mystics sought to make their books into vehicles for the reader’s spiritual transformation. Jessica Barr argues that the cognitive work of reading these texts was meant to stimulate intensely personal responses, and that the very materiality of the book can produce an intimate encounter with God. She thus explores the differences between mystics’ biographies and their self-presentation, analyzing as well the complex rhetorical moves that medieval women writers employ to render their accounts more effective. This new volume is structured around five case studies. Chapters consider the biographies of 13th-century holy women from Liège, the writings of Margery Kempe, Gertrude of Helfta, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Julian of Norwich. At the heart of Intimate Reading is the question of how reading works—what it means to enter imaginatively and intellectually into the words of another. The volume showcases the complexity of medieval understandings of the work of reading, deepening our perception of the written word’s capacity to signify something that lies even beyond rational comprehension.
Author | : Ronald Carter |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9780415243179 |
This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.