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1. Record Number: 44082
Author(s): Williams, Tara
Contributor(s):
Title : Recreating and Reassessing Margery and Julian’s Encounter

Source: Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe. Edited by Laura Kalas and Laura Varnam . Manchester University Press, 2021. Pages 278 - 309.
Year of Publication: 2021.

2. Record Number: 44586
Author(s): Dresvina, Juliana
Contributor(s): Dresvina, Juliana, ed.
Title : Attachment Theory for Historians of Medieval Religion: An Introduction

Source: Cognitive Sciences and Medieval Studies: An Introduction. Juliana Dresvina Edited by Juliana Dresvina and Victoria Blud . Brepols , 2020. Pages 121 - 141.
Year of Publication: 2020.

3. Record Number: 44587
Author(s): Dresvina, Juliana
Contributor(s): Dresvina, Juliana, ed. and Blud, Victoria, ed.
Title : Attachment Theory for Historians of Medieval Religion: An Introduction

Source: Cognitive Sciences and Medieval Studies: An Introduction. Juliana Dresvina Edited by Juliana Dresvina and Victoria Blud . Brepols , 2020. Pages 121 - 141.
Year of Publication: 2020.

4. Record Number: 45015
Author(s): Bychowski, M. W. and Margery Kempe
Contributor(s):
Title : The Book of Margery Kempe (ca. 1450–1500)

Source: Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe. Edited by Cameron Hunt McNabb . punctum books, 2020. Pages 327 - 340. Available open access from the JSTOR website: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv11hptcd.31
Year of Publication: 2020.

5. Record Number: 13657
Author(s): Hutchison, Ann M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Approaching Medieval Women Mystics in the Twenty-First Century [The author briefly explores themes of interest to students including gender issues, manuscripts and textual transmission, and connections among the women mystics. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Approaching Medieval English Anchoritic and Mystical Texts. Christianity and Culture: Issues in Teaching and Research Series, Volume 2. Edited by Dee Dyas, Valerie Edden, and Roger Ellis . D. S. Brewer, 2005. New Medieval Literatures , 7., ( 2005): Pages 175 - 183.
Year of Publication: 2005.

6. Record Number: 11755
Author(s): Stanbury, Sarah.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe and the Arts of Self-Patronage [The author argues that Margery Kempe frequently presents herself in her book as a patron and donor to the church. Stanbury compares this to surviving devotional art with donor portraits to suggest the imagery and social recognition Kempe may have had in mind. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Women's Space: Patronage, Place, and Gender in the Medieval Church. Edited by Virginia Chieffo Raguin and Sarah Stanbury . State University of New York Press, 2005. Pages 75 - 103.
Year of Publication: 2005.

7. Record Number: 11756
Author(s): Raguin, Virginia Chieffo.
Contributor(s):
Title : Real and Imagined Bodies in Architectural Space: The Setting for Margery Kempe's "Book" [The author argues that Margery Kempe constructs an image of herself in her text based on experiences in religious spaces. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

8. Record Number: 13655
Author(s): Windeatt, Barry.
Contributor(s):
Title : I Use but Comownycacyon and Good Wordys: Teaching and "The Book of Margery Kempe" [The author argues that scholars have tended to discount Kempe's inner life. Windeatt draws attention to her as a contemplative, praising the prayers throughout her book. Furthermore her conversations with Jesus Christ, Mary, and other holy figures offer important teachings for Margery and her readers. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

9. Record Number: 14606
Author(s): Raine, Melissa.
Contributor(s):
Title : Fals flesch: Food and the Embodied Piety of Margery Kempe [In examining Margery Kempe's various interactions with food which include feeding the poor, fasting, receiving the Eucharist, and eating at the tables of prominent people, Raine does not find gender a highly significant factor. Rather Margery acts out of highly individualized motivations including a concern to establish and enhance her own standing. In her conclusion Raine questions Caroline Walker Bynum's approach to women and food in Holy Feast and Holy Fast, finding the methodology and assumptions inadequate for the historical realities of gendered expectations and devotional practices. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: New Medieval Literatures , 7., ( 2005): Pages 101 - 126.
Year of Publication: 2005.

10. Record Number: 13659
Author(s): Innes-Parker, Catherine.
Contributor(s):
Title : Learning by Doing: Margery Kempe and Students Today [The author presents an assignment used in her English class in which students act as witnesses, prosecutors, and defenders in the trial of Margery Kempe for heresy and disrupting the social order. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

11. Record Number: 12882
Author(s): Phillips, Kim M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe and the Ages of Woman [Phillips explores medieval ideas about women's lifecycle. Generally authors divided women's lives into three parts: maiden, wife, and widow. In her book, however, Margery Kempe does not adhere to this scheme. There is very little about her girlhood, and her role as wife is attenuated by a vow of chastity. In this regard, as in others, the "Book of Margery Kempe" presents a unique view of life. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: A Companion to "The Book of Margery Kempe." Edited by John H. Arnold and Katherine J. Lewis . D. S. Brewer, 2004. New Medieval Literatures , 7., ( 2005): Pages 17 - 34.
Year of Publication: 2004.

12. Record Number: 9721
Author(s): Craig, Leigh Ann
Contributor(s):
Title : Stronger Than Men and Braver Than Knights: Women and the Pilgrimages to Jerusalem and Rome in the Later Middle Ages

Source: Journal of Medieval History , 29., 3 (September 2003): Pages 153 - 175.
Year of Publication: 2003.

13. Record Number: 11051
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Tak and Bren Hir: Lollardry as Conversion Motif in "The Book of Margery Kempe" [The author argues that the text presents Margery as religously and socially aberrant. Yet this is necessary to prove that she is chosen by God as a spiritual instructor. The charges of Lollardy allow her doubters to convert eventually, while also emphasizing her orthodoxy. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Mystics Quarterly , 29., 40180 (March-June 2003): Pages 24 - 44.
Year of Publication: 2003.

14. Record Number: 11830
Author(s): Swanson, R. N.
Contributor(s):
Title : Will the Real Margery Kempe Please Stand Up! [The author examines "The Book of Margery Kempe" for religion as it was experienced by women. Swanson cites in particular male roles in Margery's spiritual life, pilgrimage, the urban milieu, pardons and indulgences, heresy, and the influence of devotional literature read to Margery (who was likely illiterate). Swanson suggests that in some respects Margery was like many other lay women who were deeply concerned about their salvation. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Women and Religion in Medieval England. Edited by Diana Wood . Oxbow Books, 2003. Mystics Quarterly , 29., 40180 (March-June 2003): Pages 141 - 165.
Year of Publication: 2003.

15. Record Number: 11378
Author(s): Passmore, S. Elizabeth.
Contributor(s):
Title : Painting Lions, Drawing Lines, Writing Lives: Male Authorship in the Lives of Christina of Markyate, Margery Kempe, and Margaret Paston [First article in a Roundtable series entitled "Are You Still Deciding Whether to be a Medievalist or a Feminist?"]

Source: Medieval Feminist Forum , 36., (Fall 2003): Pages 36 - 40.
Year of Publication: 2003.

16. Record Number: 9707
Author(s): Powell, Raymond A.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe: An Exemplar of Late Medieval English Piety [The author argues that scholars for the most part have not put Margery Kempe within the context of late medieval English religious beliefs and practices. He suggests that Kempe was not religiously abnormal and that the themes in her book reflect contemporary religious concerns. Powell argues that people reacted badly to Kempe because she was annoying. Furthermore, Kempe was writing an account of her life as a saint, and persecution from her peers was part of her suffering. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Catholic Historical Review (Full Text via Project Muse) 89, 1 (January 2003): 1-23. Link Info
Year of Publication: 2003.

17. Record Number: 14696
Author(s): Lee, Becky R.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Medieval Hysteric and Psychedelic Psychologist: A Revaluation of the Mysticism of Margery Kempe in the Light of the Transpersonal Psychology of Stanislav Grof

Source: Studia Mystica , 23., ( 2002): Pages 102 - 126.
Year of Publication: 2002.

18. Record Number: 8315
Author(s): Petersen, Zina.
Contributor(s):
Title : Authoritative Noise: Margery Kempe's Appropriation of Unique Ritual and Authority [The author argues that Margery Kempe's identity relied on her relationship with Christ and her ability to make this relationship concrete through private rituals. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Magistra , 8., 2 (Winter 2002): Pages 84 - 118.
Year of Publication: 2002.

19. Record Number: 10836
Author(s): Maynard, Jane F.
Contributor(s):
Title : Purgatory: Place or Process? Women's Views on Purgatory in 14th-15th Century (Britain)

Source: Studies in Spirituality , 12., ( 2002): Pages 105 - 125.
Year of Publication: 2002.

20. Record Number: 14695
Author(s): Jenkins, Charles M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Mysticism and Prophecy: The Labors of Margery Kempe [The author argues that Margery Kempe should be considered a prophet rather than a mystic. She was concerned with bringing the divine word to the world. She did this in part through bodily means, as when she confirmed the validity and importance of her message with weeping and groaning. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Studia Mystica , 23., ( 2002): Pages 72 - 101.
Year of Publication: 2002.

21. Record Number: 6640
Author(s): Salih, Sarah.
Contributor(s):
Title : Staging Conversion: The Digby Saint Plays and "The Book of Margery Kempe" [the author examines the representation of conversion in Margery Kempe's "Book" and in the Digby saint plays of Mary Magdalene and Saint Paul; she argues that conversion is a predominantly masculine topos which affects Margery's and Mary Magdalene's gender identity].

Source: Gender and Holiness: Men, Women, and Saints in Late Medieval Europe. Edited by Samantha J. E. Riches and Sarah Salih . Routledge, 2002. Studia Mystica , 23., ( 2002): Pages 121 - 134.
Year of Publication: 2002.

22. Record Number: 6349
Author(s): Mitchell, Marea.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Ever-Growing Army of Serious Girl Students: The Legacy of Hope Emily Allen [The author assesses Allen's career noting in particular the challenges and opportunities she had as an independent scholar].

Source: Medieval Feminist Forum , 31., (Spring 2001): Pages 17 - 29.
Year of Publication: 2001.

23. Record Number: 6348
Author(s): Mubarak, Hadia
Contributor(s):
Title : Hope Emily Allen, the Second Volume of the "Book of Margery Kempe," and an Adversary [The author evaluates Allen's work and considers the difficulties she had as an independent scholar, in particular the harsh criticism that E. F. J. Arnould published about her on more than one occasion].

Source: Medieval Feminist Forum , 31., (Spring 2001): Pages 11 - 17.
Year of Publication: 2001.

24. Record Number: 6728
Author(s): Akel, Catherine S.
Contributor(s):
Title : ...A Schort Tretys and a Comfortybl...: Perception and Purpose of Margery Kempe's Narrative [the article explores the authors and texts that influenced Margery Kempe; she did not copy Nicholas Love, Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, or St. Bridget, instead she internalized their ideas and adapted them to her particular needs].

Source: English Studies , 82., 1 (February 2001): Pages 1 - 13.
Year of Publication: 2001.

25. Record Number: 6839
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Popular Literacy in the Middle Ages: "The Book of Margery Kempe" [The author argues that Margery Kempe demonstrates a text-based literacy in her text because she has a wide knowledge of religious writings, many from heart, that she learned by listening. Margery Kempe expands our definition of literate because of her sophisticated composition and use of written sources. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Popular Literacy: Studies in Cultural Practices and Poetics. Edited by John Trimbur . University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. English Studies , 82., 1 (February 2001): Pages 56
Year of Publication: 2001.

26. Record Number: 4834
Author(s): Hostetler, Margaret
Contributor(s):
Title : I Wold Thow Wer Closyd in a Hows of Ston: Sexuality and Lay Sanctity in the Book of Margery Kempe

Source: Lay Sanctity, Medieval and Modern: A Search for Models. Edited by Ann W. Astell . University of Notre Dame Press, 2000. Mystics Quarterly , 26., 4 (December 2000): Pages 91 - 104.
Year of Publication: 2000.

27. Record Number: 4579
Author(s): Hopenwasser, Nanda and Signe Wegener
Contributor(s):
Title : Vox Matris: The Influence of St. Birgitta's "Revelations" on "The Book of Margery Kempe": St. Birgitta and Margery Kempe as Wives and Mothers

Source: Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers. Edited by Barbara Stevenson and Cynthia Ho . Palgrave, 2000. Medieval Feminist Forum , 31., (Spring 2001): Pages 61 - 85.
Year of Publication: 2000.

28. Record Number: 5463
Author(s): Fanous, Samuel.
Contributor(s):
Title : Measuring the Pilgrim's Progress: Internal Emphases in "The Book of Margery Kempe" [The author argues that Margery's amanuensis used specific time and place references to mark significant events in Margery's spiritual life; this follows the model established by saints' lives].

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. Medieval Feminist Forum , 31., (Spring 2001): Pages 157 - 176.
Year of Publication: 2000.

29. Record Number: 4507
Author(s): Bowers, Terence N.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe as Traveler [The author argues that Margery Kempe uses travel to establish a new status, to wield power, and to question the patriarchal ordering of society].

Source: Studies in Philology , 97., 1 (Winter 2000): Pages 1 - 28.
Year of Publication: 2000.

30. Record Number: 5464
Author(s): Yoshikawa, Naoë Kukita.
Contributor(s):
Title : Veneration of Virgin Martyrs in Margery Kempe's Meditation: Influence of the Sarum Liturgy and Hagiography

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. Studies in Philology , 97., 1 (Winter 2000): Pages 177 - 195.
Year of Publication: 2000.

31. Record Number: 4738
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Contributor(s):
Title : The Dialogics of Margery Kempe and Her "Book" [using Bakhtin's writings on the dialogic, the author examines the relationship between the authoritative discourse of the Church and the State and Kempe's internal and persuasive voice from Jesus Christ].

Source: Mystics Quarterly , 26., 4 (December 2000): Pages 179 - 197.
Year of Publication: 2000.

32. Record Number: 4804
Author(s): Meale, Carol M.
Contributor(s):
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 Johnson Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts . Brepols, 2000. Mystics Quarterly , 26., 4 (December 2000): Pages 49 - 67.
Year of Publication: 2000.

33. Record Number: 5465
Author(s): Renevey, Denis.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery's Performing Body: The Translation of Late Medieval Discursive Religious Practices

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. Mystics Quarterly , 26., 4 (December 2000): Pages 197 - 216.
Year of Publication: 2000.

34. Record Number: 4319
Author(s): Hopenwasser, Nanda and Signe Wegener
Contributor(s):
Title : Mother Always Knows Best: A Personal Appropriation of the Fictional St. Birgitta's and Margery Kempe's Ideas about Motherhood [presented as a play set in heaven].

Source: Medieval Feminist Forum , 28., (Fall 1999): Pages 21 - 27.
Year of Publication: 1999.

35. Record Number: 3839
Author(s): Stokes, Charity Scott.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe: Her Life and the Early History of Her Book [The author examines Margery's life at length including background on medieval Lynn and Margery's family].

Source: Mystics Quarterly , 25., 40180 (March/June 1999): Pages 9 - 68.
Year of Publication: 1999.

36. Record Number: 3965
Author(s): Rosenthal, Judith.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe and Medieval Anti-Judaic Ideology

Source: Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue , 5., 3 ( 1999): Pages 409 - 420.
Year of Publication: 1999.

37. Record Number: 5299
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Not Tonight Dear, I Have a Vow of Chastity: Sexual Abstinence and Marital Vocation in "The Book of Margery Kempe"

Source: Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest , 6., ( 1999): Pages 133 - 147.
Year of Publication: 1999.

38. Record Number: 4385
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Speaking "In Propria Persona": Authorizing the Subject as a Political Act in Late Medieval Feminine Spirituality [The author examines the writings of Marguerite Porete, Christine de Pizan, and Margery Kempe to see how they speak in their own voice; when they encounter resistance, they reappropriate it and feminize it].

Source: New Trends in Feminine Spirituality: The Holy Women of Liège and Their Impact. Edited by Juliette Dor, Lesley Johnson, and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts, 2. Brepols, 1999. Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest , 6., ( 1999): Pages 269 - 294.
Year of Publication: 1999.

39. Record Number: 3540
Author(s): Hopenwasser, Nanda.
Contributor(s):
Title : A Performance Artist and Her Performance Text: Margery Kempe on Tour

Source: Performance and Transformation: New Approaches to Late Medieval Spirituality. Edited by Mary A. Suydam and Joanna E. Ziegler . St. Martin's Press, 1999. Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest , 6., ( 1999): Pages 97 - 131.
Year of Publication: 1999.

40. Record Number: 4716
Author(s): Hopenwasser, Nanda.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe as a Comic Performer [The author argues that Kempe represented her younger self as a comic figure in order to capture the attention of her audience and pass on to them her moral messages].

Source: Magistra , 5., 1 (Summer 1999): Pages 69 - 77.
Year of Publication: 1999.

41. Record Number: 4395
Author(s): Schein, Sylvia.
Contributor(s):
Title : Bridget of Sweden, Margery Kempe, and Women's Jerusalem Pilgrimages in the Middle Ages [The author argues that there were unique motivations for women's pilgrimage to Jerusalem; because of their devotion to the humanity of Christ, they wanted to relive his sufferings in the places where it had happened.]

Source: Mediterranean Historical Review , 14., 1 (June 1999): Pages 44 - 58.
Year of Publication: 1999.

42. Record Number: 4309
Author(s): Yoshikawa, Naoë Kukita.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Role of the Virgin Mary and the Structure of Meditation in the "Book of Margery Kempe"

Source: The Medieval Mystical Tradition England, Ireland, and Wales. Exeter Symposium VI. Papers read at Charney Manor, July 1999. Edited by Marion Glasscoe . D. S. Brewer, 1999. Mediterranean Historical Review , 14., 1 (June 1999): Pages 224 - 227.
Year of Publication: 1999.

43. Record Number: 4265
Author(s): Myers, Michael D.
Contributor(s):
Title : A Fictional-True Self: Margery Kempe and the Social Reality of the Merchant Elite Of King's Lynn [the author argues that Margery Kempe had fashioned her self-identity from the family status, social position, and mercantile values of her father; the decline of old-style merchant families like the Brunhams and the Kempes caused Margery to seek a new personal identity].

Source: Albion , 31., 3 (Fall 1999): Pages 377 - 394.
Year of Publication: 1999.

44. Record Number: 4308
Author(s): Lawes, Richard.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Madness of Margery Kempe [The author suggests that Kempe suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy].

Source: The Medieval Mystical Tradition England, Ireland, and Wales. Exeter Symposium VI. Papers read at Charney Manor, July 1999. Edited by Marion Glasscoe . D. S. Brewer, 1999. Albion , 31., 3 (Fall 1999): Pages 147 - 167.
Year of Publication: 1999.

45. Record Number: 3927
Author(s): Farley, Mary Hardiman.
Contributor(s):
Title : Her Own Creature: Religion, Feminist Criticism, and the Functional Eccentricity of Margery Kempe [The author argues that Margery Kempe suffered from a personality disorder and that a psychological reading of her text is more compelling than a political one].

Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 11., 1 (Spring 1999): Pages 1 - 21.
Year of Publication: 1999.

46. Record Number: 4437
Author(s): McAvoy, Liz Herbert.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery's Last Child [The author counters Laura Howes' suggestion that Margery Kempe gave birth in Italy on her way to Jerusalem; instead the author establishes a chronology for the birth, vow of chastity, trip to Norwich, and pilgrimage to the Holy Land].

Source: Notes and Queries , 2 (June 1999): Pages 181 - 183.
Year of Publication: 1999.

47. Record Number: 5047
Author(s): McAvoy, Liz Herbert.
Contributor(s):
Title : Spiritual Virgin to Virgin Mother: The Confessions of Margery Kempe [The author argues that Margery's struggle to relinquish her sexuality and motherhood paradoxically gives her models for framing her spirituality].

Source: Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, New Series , 17., 1 (July 1999): Pages 9 - 44.
Year of Publication: 1999.

48. Record Number: 3107
Author(s): Landman, James H.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Laws of Community, Margery Kempe, and the "Canon's Yeoman's Tale"

Source: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies , 28., 2 (Spring 1998): Pages 389 - 425.
Year of Publication: 1998.

49. Record Number: 3106
Author(s): Ashley, Kathleen.
Contributor(s):
Title : Historicizing Margery: "The Book of Margery Kempe" as Social Text [Reprinted in The Book of Margery Kempe: A New Translation, Contexts, Criticism. Edited by Lynn Staley. A Norton Critial Edition. W. W. Norton, 2001. Pages 264-276.]

Source: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies , 28., 2 (Spring 1998): Pages 371 - 388.
Year of Publication: 1998.

50. Record Number: 2754
Author(s): Hodapp, William F.
Contributor(s):
Title : Sacred Time and Space Within: Drama and Ritual in late Medieval Affective Passion Meditations [focuses primarily on Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe].

Source: Downside Review , 115., 401 (October 1997): Pages 235 - 248.
Year of Publication: 1997.

51. Record Number: 3511
Author(s): Dickman, Susan.
Contributor(s):
Title : A Showing of God's Grace: "The Book of Margery Kempe" [The author compares Margery's spirituality with that of continental visionaries and argues that Margery used elements such as tears and pilgrimage from the lives of these holy women in order to carve out a social role for herself].

Source: Mysticism and Spirituality in Medieval England. Edited by William F. Pollard and Robert Boenig . D.S. Brewer, 1997. Downside Review , 115., 401 (October 1997): Pages 159 - 176.
Year of Publication: 1997.

52. Record Number: 4347
Author(s): Voaden, Rosalynn.
Contributor(s):
Title : Beholding Men's Members: The Sexualizing of Transgression in "The Book of Margery Kempe" [The author argues that Margery's sense of sin as well as punishment were mapped onto her sexuality].

Source: Medieval Theology and the Natural Body. Edited by Peter Biller and A.J. Minnis York Studies in Medieval Theology . York Medieval Press, 1997. Downside Review , 115., 401 (October 1997): Pages 175 - 190.
Year of Publication: 1997.

53. Record Number: 2505
Author(s): McAvoy, Liz Herbert.
Contributor(s):
Title : Motherhood: The Book of Margery Kempe

Source: Medieval Feminist Newsletter , 24., (Fall 1997): Pages 23 - 26.
Year of Publication: 1997.

54. Record Number: 2749
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Did Marjory Kempe Suffer From Tourette's Syndrome? [the appendices list the vocal and motor behaviors in "The Book of Margery Kempe" and behaviors by other holy people known to Margery including Marie d'Oignies and St. Bridget of Sweden].

Source: Mediaeval Studies , 59., ( 1997): Pages 261 - 300.
Year of Publication: 1997.

55. Record Number: 4597
Author(s): Visconsi, Elliott.
Contributor(s):
Title : She Represents the Person of Our Lord: The Performance of Mysticism in the "Vita" of Elisabeth of Spalbeek and "The Book of Margery Kempe" [this essay describes "how medieval women produced a mysticism beyond extant gender representations, a performative mysticism firmly grounded in the disorderliness of the female flesh as it enacts the 'imitatio Christi,' predicated on an educable audience, and finally to result in a subjectivity of self-annihilation" (Page 79)].

Source: Comitatus , 28., ( 1997): Pages 76 - 89.
Year of Publication: 1997.

56. Record Number: 2639
Author(s): Harper, Stephen.
Contributor(s):
Title : So Euyl to Rewlyn: Madness and Authority in "The Book of Margery Kempe" [analyzes Margery's description of her own postpartum psychosis as well as the mad woman whom Margery cures in Chapter 75; in the latter case Margery views the madness positively as a source of increased spiritual insight and by healing this holy woman Margery demonstrates her own sanctity].

Source: Neuphilologische Mitteilungen , 98., 1 ( 1997): Pages 53 - 61.
Year of Publication: 1997.

57. Record Number: 2272
Author(s): Wilson, Janet.
Contributor(s):
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. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen , 98., 1 ( 1997): Pages 155 - 185.
Year of Publication: 1997.

58. Record Number: 1565
Author(s): Tarvers, Josephine K.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Alleged Illiteracy of Margery Kempe: A Reconsideration of the Evidence

Source: Medieval Perspectives , 11., ( 1996): Pages 113 - 124. Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association
Year of Publication: 1996.

59. Record Number: 1216
Author(s): Kline, Barbara.
Contributor(s):
Title : Editing Women's Visions: Some Thoughts on the Transmission of Female Mystics' Texts [women mystics' writings were changed by late medieval English editors and translators who minimized and sometimes eliminated the female identity of the authors].

Source: Magistra , 2., 1 (Summer 1996): Pages 3 - 23.
Year of Publication: 1996.

60. Record Number: 1223
Author(s): Gasse, Rosanne.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe and Lollardy [suggests why Kempe was accused of heresy and how her beliefs and actions differed from those of the Lollards].

Source: Magistra , 2., 2 (Winter 1996): Pages 43 - 69.
Year of Publication: 1996.

61. Record Number: 1754
Author(s): Triggs, Tony D.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe: An Eccentric View of the late Middle Ages [emphasis on her personality and her "mental, physical and moral pathologies"].

Source: Medieval Life , 5., (Summer 1996): Pages 26 - 28.
Year of Publication: 1996.

62. Record Number: 2750
Author(s): Aberth, John
Contributor(s):
Title : Pseudo-Dionysius as Liberator: The Influence of the Negative Tradition on Late Medieval Female Mystics [briefly discusses the "via negativa" tradition with regard to Julian of Norwich, Catherine of Sienna, Bridget of Sweden, and Angela of Foligno; the author also argues that Margery Kempe was not a mystic because she relied on physical sensations and showed no evidence of spiritual progress].

Source: Downside Review , 114., 395 (April 1996): Pages 96 - 115.
Year of Publication: 1996.

63. Record Number: 1820
Author(s): Bitterling, Klaus.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe, an English "Sterte" in Germany [argues that "Sterte" in the "Book of Margery Kempe," long-thought to be Middle English for "tail," is Low German meaning "vagabond" or "beggar"].

Source: Notes and Queries , 1 (March 1996): Pages 21 - 22.
Year of Publication: 1996.

64. Record Number: 1566
Author(s): Yoshikawa, Naoë Kukita.
Contributor(s):
Title : Searching for the Image of New "Ecclesia": Margery Kempe's Spiritual Pilgrimage Reconsidered

Source: Medieval Perspectives , 11., ( 1996): Pages 125 - 138. Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association
Year of Publication: 1996.

65. Record Number: 1433
Author(s): Taylor, Helen Clare.
Contributor(s):
Title : Mulier Quid Ploras? Holy Tears in "The Book of Margery Kempe" [influence of devotional texts, the Psalter, and liturgy on Margery's "rhetoric" of weeping].

Source: Mediaevalia , 19., ( 1996): Pages 363 - 384. (1996 (for 1993)) Published by the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton
Year of Publication: 1996.

66. Record Number: 1851
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe: Spectacle and Spiritual Governance [argues that the active public spectacle of fits and weeping is a kind of martyrdom and a sign of Margery's contemplative attainments].

Source: Philological Quarterly , 75., 2 (Spring 1996): Pages 137 - 166.
Year of Publication: 1996.

67. Record Number: 3682
Author(s): Hanna, Ralph, III
Contributor(s):
Title : Some NorFolk Women and Their Books, ca. 1390-1440 [the author explores two pair of women involved in literature culture: Margery Baxter and Avis Mone, two peasant women who were Lollards, and Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich; the author argues that all four women were dependent on male clerics or teachers to translate and read texts to them and that women's attempts to fulfill themselves through the written word were very difficult].

Source: The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women. Edited by June Hall McCash . University of Georgia Press, 1996. Philological Quarterly , 75., 2 (Spring 1996): Pages 288 - 305.
Year of Publication: 1996.

68. Record Number: 902
Author(s): Dillon, Janette.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe's Sharp Confessor/s [discusses Margery Kempe's confessors, as mentioned in her book, and suggests that Robert Spryngolde, parish priest of St. Margaret's in Lynn, was her demanding and strict confessor for many years].

Source: Leeds Studies in English , ( 1996): Pages 131 - 138.
Year of Publication: 1996.

69. Record Number: 3643
Author(s): Beckwith, Sarah.
Contributor(s):
Title : A Very Material Mysticism: The Medieval Mysticism of Margery Kempe

Source: Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages. Edited by Jane Chance . University Press of Florida, 1996. Leeds Studies in English , ( 1996): Pages 195 - 215.
Year of Publication: 1996.

70. Record Number: 1624
Author(s): Straus, Barrie Ruth.
Contributor(s):
Title : Freedom Through Renunciation? Women's Voices, Women's Bodies, and the Phallic Order [female literary characters who want to abstain from sex].

Source: Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West. Edited by Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler . University of Toronto Press, 1996. Leeds Studies in English , ( 1996): Pages 245 - 264.
Year of Publication: 1996.

71. Record Number: 261
Author(s): Garrett, Charlotte.
Contributor(s):
Title : Soul Journey of Margery Kempe: Hysteria, Vision, and Record

Source: Sovereign Lady: Essays on Women in Middle English Literature. Edited by Muriel Whitaker . Garland Publishing, 1995. Leeds Studies in English , ( 1995): Pages 157 - 170.
Year of Publication: 1995.

72. Record Number: 1616
Author(s): Pigg, Daniel F.
Contributor(s):
Title : Medieval Theories of Textual Formation and the Book of Margery Kempe [argues that both Margery and the second scribe consciously shaped the text in response to the commentary tradition].

Source: Studia Mystica New Series , 16., 1 ( 1995): Pages 106 - 115.
Year of Publication: 1995.

73. Record Number: 1617
Author(s): Akel, Catherine S.
Contributor(s):
Title : Familial Structure in the Religious Relationships and Visionary Experiences of Margery Kempe [argues that Margery, like other female mystics, created her own family of supportive clerics and lay believers ; furthermore familial ties with Jesus and Mary allowed Margery to achieve the kind or reconciliation and love that she had not found in her earthly family].

Source: Studia Mystica New Series , 16., 1 ( 1995): Pages 116 - 132.
Year of Publication: 1995.

74. Record Number: 6780
Author(s): Coulson, Carolyn.
Contributor(s):
Title : Mysticism, Meditation, and Identification in "The Book of Margery Kempe"

Source: Essays in Medieval Studies , 12., ( 1995): Pages 1 - 4. and 1 (notes) [in the electronic version available through Project Muse]. Issue title: Children and the Family in the Middle Ages.
Year of Publication: 1995.

75. Record Number: 1210
Author(s): Parry, Joseph D.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe's Inarticulate Narration [Margery's weeping and mourning are inadequate to express God's nature as well as her own otherness before God].

Source: Magistra , 1., 2 (Winter 1995): Pages 281 - 298.
Year of Publication: 1995.

76. Record Number: 433
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Reexamining "The Book of Margery Kempe": A Rhetoric of Autobiography

Source: Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the Rhetorical Tradition. Edited by Andrea A. Lunsford Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture . University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995. Magistra , 1., 2 (Winter 1995): Pages 53 - 71.
Year of Publication: 1995.

77. Record Number: 1979
Author(s): Classen, Albrecht.
Contributor(s):
Title : Die Mystikerin als Peregrina: Margery Kempe. Reisende in corpore - Reisende in spiritu

Source: Studies in Spirituality , 5., ( 1995): Pages 127 - 145.
Year of Publication: 1995.

78. Record Number: 3417
Author(s): Wright, Michael J.
Contributor(s):
Title : What They Said to Margery Kempe: Narrative Reliability in Her "Book"

Source: Neophilologus , 79., ( 1995): Pages 497 - 508.
Year of Publication: 1995.

79. Record Number: 618
Author(s): Yates, Julian.
Contributor(s):
Title : Mystic Self: Margery Kempe and the Mirror of Narrative

Source: Comitatus , 26., ( 1995): Pages 75 - 93. [contributions are accepted from graduate students and those who have received their doctorates within the last three years]
Year of Publication: 1995.

80. Record Number: 1123
Author(s): Kamerick, Kathleen.
Contributor(s):
Title : Art and Moral Vision in Angela of Foligno and Margery Kempe [compares their reactions to sacred art with the ideas in "De oculo morali"].

Source: Mystics Quarterly , 21., 4 (December 1995): Pages 148 - 158.
Year of Publication: 1995.

81. Record Number: 449
Author(s): Shklar, Ruth.
Contributor(s):
Title : Cobham's Daughter: "The Book of Margery Kempe" and the Power of Heterodox Thinking

Source: MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly , 56., 3 (Sept. 1995): Pages 277 - 304.
Year of Publication: 1995.

82. Record Number: 462
Author(s): Dillon, Janette.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Making of Desire in "The Book of Margery Kempe" [relations between laywomen and male clergy that defined sexuality].

Source: Leeds Studies in English , ( 1995): Pages 113 - 144.
Year of Publication: 1995.

83. Record Number: 3351
Author(s): Uhlman, Diana R.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Comfort of Voice, the Solace of Script: Orality and Literacy in "The Book of Margery Kempe" [The author argues against a dichotomy between oral versus written and instead suggests a complex interdependence].

Source: Studies in Philology , 91., 1 (Winter 1994): Pages 50 - 69.
Year of Publication: 1994.

84. Record Number: 1412
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : The Conversion of Margery Kempe's Son

Source: English Language Notes , 32., 2 (December 1994): Pages 9 - 13.
Year of Publication: 1994.

85. Record Number: 1949
Author(s): Manzanas Calvo, Ana Maria.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Economics of Salvation in "The Book of Margery Kempe" and "The Pardoner's Prologue": The Vision of Purgatory

Source: Papers from the VII International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language & Literature. . 1994. English Language Notes , 32., 2 (December 1994): Pages 175 - 185.
Year of Publication: 1994.

86. Record Number: 14769
Author(s): Craymer, Suzanne L.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe's Imitation of Mary Magdalene and the "Digby Plays"

Source: Mystics Quarterly , 19., 4 (December 1993): Pages 173 - 181.
Year of Publication: 1993.

87. Record Number: 9458
Author(s): Bartlett, Anne Clark.
Contributor(s):
Title : “Delicious Matyr”: Feminine Courtesy in Middle English Devotional Literature for Women [The author explores how devotional texts addressed to women readers often used the discourses of courtly literature and romances, while at the same time critiquing these literary conventions. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Essays in Medieval Studies , 9., ( 1992): Pages 9 - 18.
Year of Publication: 1992.

88. Record Number: 10006
Author(s): Tarvers, Josephine Koster.
Contributor(s):
Title : “Thys ys my mystrys boke”: English Women and Readers and Writers in Late Medieval England [Women actively participated in manuscript culture and literary production in fourteenth and fifteenth century England. Manuscript evidence shows they could be owners of books as well as translators and scribes. The author provides many examples of manuscripts that were written by and for (and circulated among) women. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: The Uses of manuscripts in literary studies: essays in memory of Judson Boyce Allen. Edited by Charlotte Cook Morse, Penelope Reed Doob, and Marjorie Curry Woods Studies in medieval culture . Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1992. Essays in Medieval Studies , 9., ( 1992): Pages 305 - 327.
Year of Publication: 1992.

89. Record Number: 10242
Author(s): Mahoney, Dhira B.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe’s Tears and the Power Over Language [Margery’s tears play a significant role in her attempt to define herself and her role in society. She communicates her unique status to others through her tears. Weeping marks her as a woman who is both of the world while remaining apart from it, and she demonstrates her power outside of language by means of her tears and prayers. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Edited by Sandra J. McEntire . Garland Publishing, 1992. Mystics Quarterly , 19., 4 (December 1993): Pages 37 - 50.
Year of Publication: 1992.

90. Record Number: 10678
Author(s): Cleve, Gunnel.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe: A Scandanavian Influence in Medieval England? [The author argues that both St. Bridget's life and her writings had a profound influence on Margery Kempe. As a married woman who was extremely anxious about her loss of virginity, Margery welcomes Saint Bridget as a model for her sanctity despite marriage and children. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Medieval Mystical Tradition in England: Exeter Symposium , 5., ( 1992): Pages 163 - 178.
Year of Publication: 1992.

91. Record Number: 10244
Author(s): Szell, Timea K.
Contributor(s):
Title : From Woe to Weal and Weal to Woe: Notes on the Structure of "The Book of Margery Kempe" [The complicated narrative structure of Margery’s “Book” reflects the author’s attempt to reconcile two contradictory psychological impulses: one is the need to gain social acceptance and legitimacy; the other is the desire to be publicly shunned and perceived as outside of societal norms. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Edited by Sandra J. McEntire . Garland Publishing, 1992. Mystics Quarterly , 19., 4 (December 1993): Pages 73 - 91.
Year of Publication: 1992.

92. Record Number: 9498
Author(s): Johnson, Lynn Staley.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe: social critic [The article considers Kempe as a socialcommentator, and discusses the way she uses her particular vision of social reality not only to support her spiritual biography, but to critique the community. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 22., 2 (Spring 1992): Pages 159 - 184.
Year of Publication: 1992.

93. Record Number: 8725
Author(s): Beckwith, Sarah.
Contributor(s):
Title : Problems of Authority in Late Medieval English Mysticism: Language, Agency, and Authority in the "Book of Margery Kempe" [Considering Margery Kempe's "Book" in terms of mystical discourse, vernacularity, and late medieval English religious writings, the author examines the conditions of medieval subjectivity, particularly that of women. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 4., 1 (Spring 1992): Pages 171 - 199.
Year of Publication: 1992.

94. Record Number: 8632
Author(s): Helfers, James P.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Mystic as Pilgrim: Margery Kempe and the Tradition of Nonfictional Travel Narrative [The author proposes to re-read "The Book of Margery Kempe" as a bridge between the medieval allegorical pilgrimage narrative and the humanist, curiosity-centered travel-literature tradition of the Renaissance. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association , 13., ( 1992): Pages 25 - 45.
Year of Publication: 1992.

95. Record Number: 10243
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
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. Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association , 13., ( 1992): Pages 51 - 69.
Year of Publication: 1992.

96. Record Number: 10247
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe and King’s Lynn [King’s Lynn, Kempe’s hometown in East Anglia, played a central role in shaping her self-image. Home, family, social networks, and domestic space are key concerns for Kempe, whose “Book” expresses a tension between the desire for inclusion (acceptance by the townspeople) and the simultaneous desire to be excluded by society (in order to have her special social status acknowledged). Kempe’s double perspective resolves the perceived opposition between her guarded, private married life and her highly active public life. The article includes two appendices (a list of the citizens of King’s Lynn and a list of Kempe’s neighbors) and a map of medieval King’s Lynn. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

97. Record Number: 10248
Author(s): Hopenwasser, Nanda.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe, St. Bridget, and Marguerite d’Oingt: The Visionary Writer as Shaman [Visionary writers of medieval Europe performed many of the same functions that modern shamans do in communities outside the Western tradition. As creative artists, they serve as bridges between the eternal and temporal worlds, transferring information and spiritual healing from a higher power to human society. They are apart from society yet also derive power from their marginal position. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

98. Record Number: 10018
Author(s): Harvey, Nancy Lenz.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe: writer as creature [The article suggests that Kempe views her written book as a physical manifestation of her own spiritual experience. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Philological Quarterly , 71., 2 (Spring 1992): Pages 173 - 184.
Year of Publication: 1992.

99. Record Number: 10241
Author(s): Armstrong, Elizabeth Psakis.
Contributor(s):
Title : “Understanding by Feeling” in Margery Kempe’s Book [When Kempe’s writing is compared to the various devotional writers she mentions in her book (Richard Rolle, Julian of Norwich, Walter Hilton, Saints Bridget of Sweden and Catherine of Siena), it is clear that she borrows from both devotional and hagiographical traditions. She combines these traditions with other discourses in order to triumph over clerical authority and to enact her own new spirituality based on feeling. The author suggests that her religious practices are close to those of Protestants in later periods (including Pentecostal women). Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Edited by Sandra J. McEntire . Garland Publishing, 1992. Philological Quarterly , 71., 2 (Spring 1992): Pages 17 - 35.
Year of Publication: 1992.

100. Record Number: 10250
Author(s): Holloway, Julia Bolton.
Contributor(s):
Title : Bride, Margery, Julian, and Alice: Bridget of Sweden’s Textual Community in Medieval England [Kempe models her devotional practices on Saint Bridget of Sweden, replicating the saint’s writings, life, and pilgrimages through her own book and travels. In her pilgrimages, Kempe visited the same sites Bridget did in her lifetime. Pilgrimage was available to both men and women, and writing a text enabled women to gain some access to power by narrating their travels. The author traces the lives, texts, and travels of historical figures like Saint Bridget of Sweden and Julian of Norwich, as well as Dame Alison (Chaucer’s fictional Wife of Bath). Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Edited by Sandra J. McEntire . Garland Publishing, 1992. Philological Quarterly , 71., 2 (Spring 1992): Pages 203 - 222.
Year of Publication: 1992.

101. Record Number: 9481
Author(s): Harding, Wendy.
Contributor(s):
Title : Medieval Women’s Unwritten Discourse on Motherhood: A Reading of Two Fifteenth-Century Texts [The author examines two late medieval texts, those of Margery Kempe and Margaret Paston, in order to consider the relationship between masculine, public discourses on motherhood and private, feminine ones. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Women's Studies , 21., 2 ( 1992): Pages 197 - 209.
Year of Publication: 1992.

102. Record Number: 10240
Author(s): Provost, William.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe and Her Calling [The author examines the relationship between one’s identity and vocation (job or personal calling) in Margery Kempe’s book. Compared to the medieval woman writer Julian of Norwich (who clearly presents herself as an anchoress) and Chaucer’s fictional Wife of Bath (whose very occupation is being a “wife”), Margery’s social role is indeterminate. She is neither a conventional wife nor a religious woman, and she confuses both her contemporaries and modern readers because she does not fit into any stable occupational category. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Edited by Sandra J. McEntire . Garland Publishing, 1992. Women's Studies , 21., 2 ( 1992): Pages 3 - 15.
Year of Publication: 1992.

103. Record Number: 9480
Author(s): Johnson, M. K.
Contributor(s):
Title : “No Bananas, Giraffes, or Elephants”: Margery Kempe’s Text of Bliss [The author analyzes the “Book of Margery Kempe” as a “text of bliss,” one which ruptures and upsets our assumptions and breaks apart our reading strategies. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Women's Studies , 21., 2 ( 1992): Pages 185 - 196.
Year of Publication: 1992.

104. Record Number: 10246
Author(s): Bremner, Eluned.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe and the Critics: Disempowerment and Deconstruction [The author compares selected twentieth-century analyses of Kempe’s “Book” (written by literary critics) to episodes in the “Book” itself, in which Margery faces criticism from various figures of authority. Both the modern critics outside the text and the clerical figures within the “Book” reinforce patriarchal structures in response to Kempe, who challenges female suppression and speaks to establish her autonomy and power. Despite critics’ attempts to disempower her, Kempe refuses to accept the marginalization of female sexuality, crosses traditional gender role boundaries, and determines her own voice and social role through speech and writing. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Edited by Sandra J. McEntire . Garland Publishing, 1992. Women's Studies , 21., 2 ( 1992): Pages 117 - 135.
Year of Publication: 1992.

105. Record Number: 10251
Author(s): Wilson, Janet.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery and Alison: Women on Top [The author reads the fifteenth-century mystic Margery Kempe and the fictional character of Alison (Chaucer’s Wife of Bath) as flamboyant women who both cross social boundaries and disrupt social norms. Although their voices are mediated through men (scribes in the case of Margery and the author Chaucer in the case of Alison), these women can be read as examples of the carnivalesque: They both challenge patriarchal authority and subvert social hierarchies through their parodic or theatrical speech. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Edited by Sandra J. McEntire . Garland Publishing, 1992. Women's Studies , 21., 2 ( 1992): Pages 223 - 227.
Year of Publication: 1992.

106. Record Number: 10529
Author(s): Regnier-Bohler, Danielle.
Contributor(s):
Title : Literary and Mystical Voices [The relationship between women and language in medieval texts is complicated and contradictory. Some writers ascribe great agency and power to women’s use of language, while others seek to silence female voices. Mythical figures like Philomena, Echo, and Griselda are pervasive figures of silent women, and actual medieval women do not necessarily speak in their own voices (they are mediated by male writers). In addition, women’s use of language is often deemed evil, unreliable, or obscene. Literary voices like the poet Christine de Pizan and female mystics like Margery Kempe express themselves in new styles that are at once powerful and complex. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: A History of Women in the West. Volume 2: Silences of the Middle Ages. Edited by Christiane Klapisch-Zuber . Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992. Women's Studies , 21., 2 ( 1992): Pages 427 - 482.
Year of Publication: 1992.

107. Record Number: 10245
Author(s): Lawton, David.
Contributor(s):
Title : Voice, Authority, and Blasphemy in "The Book of Margery Kempe" [The author examines the importance of blasphemy in the production of literary texts in fifteenth-century England; during this time, vernacular writing was sometimes associated with heresy. While some readers fear Kempe expresses unorthodox religious ideas, the author notes that Kempe espouses orthodox views. Kempe also demonstrates a knowledge of Latin texts even though she claims to be illiterate. Ultimately, Kempe’s unique voice as a woman is preserved through the text even if her speech is mediated by a long line of male scribes and editors. Title note supplied by Feminae].

Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Edited by Sandra J. McEntire . Garland Publishing, 1992. Women's Studies , 21., 2 ( 1992): Pages 93 - 115.
Year of Publication: 1992.

108. Record Number: 8005
Author(s): Howes, Laura L.
Contributor(s):
Title : On the Birth of Margey Kempe's Last Child [The author suggests that Margery Kempe was pregnant with her last child when she left England in 1413 on pilgrimage. Her schedule, involving a long wait in Venice for a ship to Jerusalem, would have allowed her to give birth before sailing east. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Modern Philology (Full Text via JSTOR) 90, 2 (November 1992): 220-225. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1992.

109. Record Number: 10249
Author(s): Barratt, Alexandra.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe and the King’s Daughter of Hungary [In her “Book,” English mystic Margery Kempe adapts the text of another woman visionary, Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. Instances of devotional suffering, weeping, and self-martyrdom in Kempe’s book could be modeled on selected incidents in Elizabeth’s writings. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Edited by Sandra J. McEntire . Garland Publishing, 1992. Pages 189 - 201.
Year of Publication: 1992.

110. Record Number: 9490
Author(s): Ross, Robert C.
Contributor(s):
Title : Oral life, written text: the genesis of the "Book of Margery Kempe." [The author proposes to treat Kempe’s “Book” as a form of oral life-history, in order to better understand its compositional integrity. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Yearbook of English Studies , 22., ( 1992): Pages 226 - 237.
Year of Publication: 1992.

111. Record Number: 11084
Author(s): Johnson, Lynn Staley.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Trope of the Scribe and the Question of Literary Authority in the Works of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe [The author examines “scribal metaphors” and the figure of the scribe as they relate to women authors and literary authority in the works of Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Speculum , 66., 4 ( 1991): Pages 820 - 838.
Year of Publication: 1991.

112. Record Number: 11042
Author(s): Slade, Carole.
Contributor(s):
Title : Alterity in Union: The Mystical Experience of Angela of Foligno and Margery Kempe [The author explores the mystical visions of Angela of Foligno and Margery Kempe, arguing that through describing their transcendent unions with God, the women mystics gain subjectivity. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Religion and Literature , 23., 3 (Autumn 1991): Pages 109 - 126.
Year of Publication: 1991.

113. Record Number: 10682
Author(s): Ross, Ellen M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Spiritual Experience and Women's Autobiography: The Rhetoric of Selfhood in "The Book of Margery Kempe" [Kempe uses domestic and familial language as the dominant metaphors for describing her relationship with the divine and her mode of understanding, experiencing, and expressing the self. Not only does she use relational terms like "daughter," "mother," and "sister" to describe her connections to Christ and the Virgin Mary, but she also identifies herself with a tradition of holy women and, at other times, as a prophet. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Journal of the American Academy of Religion , 59., 3 (Fall 1991): Pages 527 - 546.
Year of Publication: 1991.