- Biography, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages, Christian women, Early works to 1800
"Margery Kempe's autobiography engages the modern reader with its richly textured images of late-medieval England - its town life, customs, means of travel, dress, food, and, most notably, its observations of the religious rituals that prevailed in the author's lifetime (ca.
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Earnest, grave, prestige and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Margery Kempe
- First published
- 1940
- Pages
- 343
- Publisher
- Pub. for the Early English text society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, Burns & Oats, Published for TEAMS (the Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages) in association with the University of Rochester by Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- English, enm
- ISBN
- 9780859917919
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