| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
The New Middle Ages |
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New Middle Ages
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| Contents |
Prologue -- 1. The Carthusian Connection -- 2. Carthusian Preaching Materials -- 3. Death, Dissolution, and Dispersal -- 4. Digbys, Erdeswicks, Bowdons, and Butler-Bowdons -- 5. Recovery, Revelation, and Revival |
| Summary |
On December 27, 1934, the American scholar Hope Emily Allen announced in The Times the reappearance of a late medieval manuscript called "The Book of Margery Kempe". "Perilous Passages: The Book of Margery Kempe, 1534-1934" explores the various paths by which this late medieval manuscript made its way out of a monastery in Yorkshire during Henry VIII's religious reformation to the home of a family of deep English and Catholic roots in the twentieth century. Julie A. Chappell reveals new evidence that implicates the Carthusians as conscious preservers of this manuscript between 1534 and 1537 and significantly furthers our understanding of the ways in which the unique autobiography of Margery Kempe, lay woman turned mystic and visionary, was interpreted. Most importantly, this fascinating study bridges the gaps in our understanding of the transmission of texts from the medieval past to the present |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Kempe, Margery, approximately 1373- Book of Margery Kempe.
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| SUBJECT |
Book of Margery Kempe (Kempe, Margery) fast |
| Subject |
Christian literature, English (Middle) -- History and criticism
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500
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Mysticism -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
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Literary studies: classical, early & medieval -- Middle English.
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Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 -- Middle English.
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RELIGION -- Christian Life -- General.
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Literature.
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Christian literature, English (Middle)
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature
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Mysticism -- Middle Ages
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Women and literature
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137277688 |
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1137277688 |
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9781349447299 |
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1349447293 |
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