Margery Kempe's Meditations: The Context of Medieval Devotional Literatures, Liturgy and Iconography

by Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa

Since its rediscovery in 1934, The Book of Margery Kempe has generally been judged as over-emotional and na ve. Nao Kukita Yoshikawa argues instead that The Book of Margery Kempe is a creative experience of memory as spiritual progress. Yoshikawa explores Margery's meditational experience in the context of the visual and verbal iconography and provides a comprehensive analysis of Margery's meditative experience as it is structured in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0708319106
• ISBN13: 9780708319109
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 8.7"