LEADER 03644nam 2200589 450 001 9910816965703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-0815-5 010 $a1-5017-0816-3 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501708169 035 $a(CKB)3710000001145910 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4837484 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001721108 035 $a(OCoLC)957656484 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse57129 035 $a(DE-B1597)483647 035 $a(OCoLC)992526956 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501708169 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4837484 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11382418 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL1005084 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001145910 100 $a20170525h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aMargery Kempe and the lonely reader /$fRebecca Krug 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aLondon, [England] :$cCornell University Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (241 pages) 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2017. 311 $a1-5017-0533-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Comfort -- $t2. Despair -- $t3. Shame -- $t4. Fear -- $t5. Loneliness -- $tAfterword -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aSince its rediscovery in 1934, the fifteenth-century Book of Margery Kempe has become a canonical text for students of medieval Christian mysticism and spirituality. Its author was a fifteenth-century English laywoman who, after the birth of her first child, experienced vivid religious visions and vowed to lead a deeply religious life while remaining part of the secular world. After twenty years, Kempe began to compose with the help of scribes a book of consolation, a type of devotional writing found in late medieval religious culture that taught readers how to find spiritual comfort and how to feel about one's spiritual life. In Margery Kempe and the Lonely Reader, Rebecca Krug shows how and why Kempe wrote her Book, arguing that in her engagement with written culture she discovered a desire to experience spiritual comfort and to interact with fellow believers who also sought to live lives of intense emotional engagement.An unlikely candidate for authorship in the late medieval period given her gender and lack of formal education, Kempe wrote her Book as a revisionary act. Krug shows how the Book reinterprets concepts from late medieval devotional writing (comfort, despair, shame, fear, and loneliness) in its search to create a spiritual community that reaches out to and includes Kempe, her friends, family, advisers, and potential readers. Krug offers a fresh analysis of the Book as a written work and draws attention to the importance of reading, revision, and collaboration for understanding both Kempe's particular decision to write and the social conditions of late medieval women's authorship. 606 $aWomen authors, English$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$vBiography 606 $aChristian pilgrims and pilgrimages$vEarly works to 1800 606 $aChristian women$xReligious life$zEngland 615 0$aWomen authors, English 615 0$aChristian pilgrims and pilgrimages 615 0$aChristian women$xReligious life 676 $a248.2/2092 700 $aKrug$b Rebecca$01609866 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816965703321 996 $aMargery Kempe and the lonely reader$93937322 997 $aUNINA