Book Of Margery Kempe; Author: Kempe, Margery; Paperback

Author: Kempe, Margery
Longman Annotated Texts; Paperback; Chronology, Bibliography
485 pages
Published: December 1999
Pearson Professional Education
ISBN: 058230461X

This is an edition of the earliest surviving autobiography of the unique account of the extraordinary life, travels and revelations of Margery Kempe. For the first time the original textis presented in an accessible form for modern readers. This is the most compelling and significant English text of the Middle Ages. Provides on-page annotation , the first of its kind for this book, which brings together the insights of scholarship on Kempe since the discovery of the manuscript in 1934. Also included is a chronology of Kemp's life, a helpful summary analysis of the chapters, and a full bibliography. A must for those interested in the history or literature of the Middle Ages, or for those interested in Women's' history. ALSO AVAILABLE IN HARDCOVER: 0-582-30460-1.This is the first edition for sixty years of the earliest surviving autobiography in English. This text is the earliest surviving autobiography in English: the account of the life, travels and revelations of Margery Kempe. The introduction provides information and contexts for interpretation on a text central to courses on women's studies, women's history, and mediaevel literature.