Book of Margery Kempe

Name: Book of Margery Kempe
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ISBN: 9780385490375

ISBN-10: 0385490372

ISBN-13: 9780385490375

Edition: 1998

Authors: John Skinner

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Though a familiar name, little was known about the English mystic Margery Kempe (c. 1373-c. 1440) for hundreds of years except that she had an association with the great Julian of Norwich. This all changed in 1934 with the discovery of The Book of Margery Kempe in a library where it had lain hidden for four hundred years. Finding Margery's own story was important not just because of the light it shed on her life, but it also turned out to be the first known autobiography in the English language. Even more intriguing to the experts of the day, this unique document was written by a woman. But if anyone had expected to find her anything like her cloistered contemporary, Julian, they were in…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/18/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.43" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English