Book of Margery Kempe, The

Here is a synthesis of Margery’s many diverse spiritual practices, contextualising these both back in time to such late twelfth-/ thirteenth-century texts as Ancrene Wisse, and The Katherine Group (written for pious women), and also transnationally to those of her contemporary mulieres religiosae engaged in forming their identities, often remaining in the world and living as devout laywomen across Europe, and the author's study serve as an Introduction to an illuminating modern English tran...