Margery Kempe

Margery Kempe ( * ca 1373 in King's Lynn, ( England); † after 1438 ) is an English mystic and visionary who is well known for its Middle English writing The Book of Margery Kempe, a work which by some as the first autobiography in the English language is considered. In this book, her extensive pilgrimages to various holy sites are described in Europe and Asia. Including their pilgrimage in 1433 by Germany to wonder Blood Church in Bad Wilsnack in Prignitz, which further led first by boat from Gdansk to Stralsund and then Wilsnack to Aachen.

Works

  • The Book of Margery Kempe. Edited by Sanford Brown Meech with prefatory note by Hope Emily Allen. EETS. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1940.
  • The Book of Margery Kempe. Ed. Lynn Staley. TEAMS. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1996.
  • The Book of Margery Kempe: A New Translation, Contexts and Criticism. Trans and ed, Lynn Staley. New York: Norton, 2001.
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