Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 8830
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Wilson , Janet.
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  • Title: Communities of Dissent: The Secular and Ecclesiastical Communities of Margery Kempe's "Book" [argues that the controversies Kempe provoked on religious, social, and sexual questions demonstrate underlying tensions among Lynn's laiety and religious which Kempe's enthusiastic excesses merely exacerbated].
  • Source: Medieval Women in Their Communities.  Edited by Diane Watt.  University of Toronto Press, 1997.  Pages 155 - 185.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Clergy Community Life Kempe, Margery, Mystic- Book of Margery Kempe King's Lynn, Norfolk, England Mystics Scribes and Scriptoria Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 15
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  • Table: One figure. Woodcut of the crucifixion from Wynkyn de Worde's 1501 edition of Margery Kempe's book.
  • Abstract:
  • Related Resources: "Janet Wilson's article "Communities of Dissent: the Secular and Ecclesiastical Communities of Margery Kempe's Book" looks at Kempe's spirituality in terms of the diversity of local religious culture prevalent in East Anglia. She argues that Margery's behavior was more at home in the spiritually intense world of Norfolk than it was outside of her home region." From the review written by Katherine L. French of "Medieval Women in Their Communities," "Medieval Review" (TMR ID: 96.12.11). [Reproduced by permission of the "Medieval Review."].
  • Author's Affiliation: University of Otago
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  • Year of Publication: 1997.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0802042899