Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999
Karma Lochrie demonstrates that women were associated not with the body but rather with the flesh, that disruptive aspect of body and soul which Augustine claimed was fissured with the Fall of Man. It is within this framework that she reads The Book of Margery Kempe, demonstrating the ways in which Kempe exploited the gendered ideologies of flesh and text through her controversial practices of writing, her inappropriate-seeming laughter, and the most notorious aspect of her mysticism, her "hysterical" weeping expressions of religious desire. Lochrie challenges prevailing scholarly assumptions of Kempe's illiteracy, her role in the writing of her book, her misunderstanding of mystical concepts, and the failure of her book to influence a reading community. In her work and her life, Kempe consistently crossed the barriers of those cultural taboos designed to exclude and silence her.
Instead of viewing Kempe as marginal to the great mystical and literary traditions of the late Middle Ages, this study takes her seriously as a woman responding to the cultural constraints and exclusions of her time. Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh will be of interest to students and scholars of medieval studies, intellectual history, and feminist theory.
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"A feminist analysis of the writing of the fifteenth-century English mystic, showing how Kempe exploited the gendered ideologies of flesh and text, violated taboos, and responded to the constraints of her time."—Book News, Inc.
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Clare of Montefalco's (d.1308) persistent meditation on Christ's Passion in thought and in action was rewarded with a physical cross implanted in her heart. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sensory devotion, langor amoris, magisterium language, amoris languidi, amor sensibilis, mystical languor, heaving powers, dilecti dilecti, fissured flesh, marvelous communication, mystical desire, holy folly, mystic text, spiritual buoyancy, mystic discourse, mystic speech, mystical discourse, medieval mystical tradition, mystic utterance, mystical lover, spiritual fun, imaginary zone, sweet writing, fable mystique, affective spirituality Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Margery Kempe, Middle English, Middle Ages, New York, Richard Rolle, Julian of Norwich, Christ's Passion, Catherine of Siena, Mount Grace, Oxford University Press, Monk of Farne, Booke of Gostlye Grace, Wynkyn de Worde, Bridget of Sweden, Mechtild of Hackeborn, Richard Methley, Bernard of Clairvaux, Monk of Fame, Ancrene Wisse, Clarendon Press, Hope Emily Allen, Mary Magdalene, Paulist Press, Song of Songs, Holy Land New!
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Clare of Montefalco's (d.1308) persistent meditation on Christ's Passion in thought and in action was rewarded with a physical cross implanted in her heart. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sensory devotion, langor amoris, magisterium language, amoris languidi, amor sensibilis, mystical languor, heaving powers, dilecti dilecti, fissured flesh, marvelous communication, mystical desire, holy folly, mystic text, spiritual buoyancy, mystic discourse, mystic speech, mystical discourse, medieval mystical tradition, mystic utterance, mystical lover, spiritual fun, imaginary zone, sweet writing, fable mystique, affective spirituality Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Margery Kempe, Middle English, Middle Ages, New York, Richard Rolle, Julian of Norwich, Christ's Passion, Catherine of Siena, Mount Grace, Oxford University Press, Monk of Farne, Booke of Gostlye Grace, Wynkyn de Worde, Bridget of Sweden, Mechtild of Hackeborn, Richard Methley, Bernard of Clairvaux, Monk of Fame, Ancrene Wisse, Clarendon Press, Hope Emily Allen, Mary Magdalene, Paulist Press, Song of Songs, Holy Land New!
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- Richard Rolle: The English Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality) by Richard Rolle on 13 pages
- Medieval Mystical Tradition In England (University of Exeter Press - Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies) by Marion Glasscoe on 7 pages
- Human Body (Inside-Outside Puzzles) by Straight Edge Press on 6 pages
- The Fire of Love (Penguin Classics) by Richard Rolle on 6 pages
- The Politics and Poetics of Transgression by Peter Stallybrass on 5 pages
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- Performance and Transformation: New Approaches to Late Medieval Spirituality by Mary A. Suydam on 6 pages
- Spiritual Economies: Female Monasticism in Later Medieval England (The Middle Ages Series) by Nancy Bradley Warren on 6 pages
- From Sacred Body to Angelic Soul: Understanding Mary in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Donna Spivey Ellington on 5 pages
- Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature: The Wife of Bath and All Her Sect by Dr Ruth Evans on page 108, page 138, and Back Matter
- The Saintly Politics of Catherine of Siena by F. Thomas Luongo on page 104, page 106, and Back Matter
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