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Mystic and pilgrim: the Book and the world of Margery Kempe

Clarissa W. Atkinson 1983 © Cornell University Press
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  • ATLA Special Series
ISBN(s)
  • 9780801498954 (paper)
  • 9780801415210 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Women's Studies
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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page 9)
  • CHAPTER ONE "A Short Treatise and a Comfortable": The Book of Margery Kempe (page 13)
  • CHAPTER TWO "A Haircloth in Thy Heart": Pilgrim and Mystic (page 39)
  • CHAPTER THREE "She Was Come of Worthy Kindred": The Burnham Family of King's Lynn (page 67)
  • CHAPTER FOUR "Her Ghostly Mother": Church and Clergy (page 103)
  • CHAPTER FIVE "In the Likeness of a Man": The Tradition of Affective Piety (page 129)
  • CHAPTER SIX "A Maiden in Thy Soul": Female Sanctity in the Late Middle Ages (page 157)
  • CHAPTER SEVEN "Ordained to Be a Mirror": Interpretations of Margery Kempe (page 195)
  • Selected Bibliography (page 221)
  • Index (page 235)
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AHR 89.3 (Jun. 1984): 749 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28198406%2989%3A3%3C749%3AMAPTBA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7
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