Familial Discourses in «the Book of Margery Kempe» «Blyssed Be the Wombe That the Bar and the Tetys That Yaf the Sowkyn» |
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| Author:
| Rohrhofer, Raphaela |
| Series title: | Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-3-653-99479-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2014 |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
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Book Description:
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This study approaches Margery Kempe's roles in her earthly, heavenly and spiritual families. It details the tension between her domestic and spiritual life and the agony and pleasure imposed on her by the divine. Close extensive research is devoted to late medieval female mysticism and the complex authorship and genre of The Book of Margery Kempe.
This study approaches Margery Kempe's roles in her earthly, heavenly and spiritual families. It details the tension between her domestic and spiritual life and the agony and pleasure imposed on her by the divine. Close extensive research is devoted to late medieval female mysticism and the complex authorship and genre of The Book of Margery Kempe.