Book of Margery Kempe
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- Released
- 2/1/86
- Book Genre
- Autobiography, Biography
Description
The story of the eventful and controversial life of Margery Kempe wife, mother, businesswoman, pilgrim and visionary is the earliest surviving autobiography in English. Here Kempe (c.1373 c.1440) recounts in vivid, unembarrassed detail the madness that followed the birth of the first of her fourteen children, the failure of her brewery business, her dramatic call to the spiritual life, her visions and uncontrollable tears, the struggle to convert her husband to a vow of chastity and her pilgrimages to Europe and the Holy Land. Margery Kempe could not read or write, and dictated her remarkable story late in life. It remains an extraordinary record of human faith and a portrait of a medieval woman of unforgettable character and courage.
Product Details
- Book Format
- Paperback
- Academic Level
- Scholarly
- Undergraduate
- Book Edition
- REISSUE
- Reprint
- Series
- Penguin Classics
- Book Volume
- 40
- 3
- Geographic Designation
- England
- Great Britain/British Isles
- Contributing Authors
- Margery Kempe
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain/British Isles
- Dewey Decimal Classification
- 248.2/2/0924
- Dimensions
- 127 x 197 x 19 mm
- Cast & Crew
- Penguin Group USA (Publisher)
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
