Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 4947
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  • Title: The Journey into Selfhood: Margery Kempe and Feminine Spirituality [The author reads Margery’s narrative of spiritual progression alongside feminist, psychological and theological accounts of how women achieve selfhood. This process involves self-negation, spiritual awakening, and self-naming. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays.  Edited by Sandra J. McEntire.  Garland Publishing, 1992.  Pages 51 - 69.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Authority Devotional Practices Feminist Theory Identity Kempe, Margery, Mystic Lay Piety Literature- Prose Mystics Self Spirituality Subjectivity Theology Women in Literature Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 15
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  • Year of Publication: 1992.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0815303785