Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 2310
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Lawes , Richard.
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  • Title: Psychological Disorder and the Autobiographical Impulse in Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and Thomas Hoccleve [the author argues that cases of psychological crises, such as Kempe's post-natal psychosis and temporal lobe disease, Julian's physical illness that brought on hallucinations, and Hoccleve's bi-polar condition, all may have served as a stimulus to autobiographical writings].
  • Source: Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England.  Edited by Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead.  University of Toronto Press, 2000.  Pages 217 - 243.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Autobiography Hoccleve, Thomas, Poet Individual Julian of Norwich, Mystic Mental Illness Mystics Psychological Approach Subjectivity
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 14- 15
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  • Related Resources: Richard Lawes, a psychiatrist who applies psychological theory to the study of late medieval and Renaissance literature, examines both previous attempts at diagnosing Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and Thomas Hoccleve and also their writings. He finds
  • Author's Affiliation: Clare Hall, University of Cambridge (Junior Research Fellowship)
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  • Year of Publication: 2000.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0802035175