Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 6992
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Meale , Carol M.
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  • Title: This is a Deed Bok, the Tother a Quick: Theatre and the Drama of Salvation in the "Book" of Margery Kempe [The author argues that Kempe adopted the tecnhniques of drama in her "Book" in order to add to both her spiritual and her authorial agency].
  • Source: Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts in Late Medieval Britain. Essays for Felicity Riddy.  Edited by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Rosalynn Voaden, Arlyn Diamond, Ann Hutchison, Carol M. Meale, and Lesley JohnsonMedieval Women: Texts and Contexts.  Brepols, 2000.  Pages 49 - 67.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Authority Kempe, Margery, Mystic- Book of Margery Kempe Lay Piety Literature- Drama Liturgy Mystics Performance Visions Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 14- 15
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  • Related Resources: The essay by Carol Meale, on the other hand, assumes that the Book arose out of the religious experience of a real woman, and can be used to gauge the accessibility and status of popular drama within late medieval society. She concludes that Margery Kempe
  • Author's Affiliation: University of Bristol
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  • Year of Publication: 2000.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 2503509797