Margery Kempe's Spiritual Medicine: Suffering, Transformation and the Life-Course

by Laura Kalas

Book Overview

The Book of Margery Kempe set in the context of medieval medical discourse.

Margery Kempe's various illnesses, mental, spiritual and physical, are a recurring theme in her Book. This volume, the first full-length interdisciplinary study from a medical humanities perspective, offers a medicalized reading of Kempe's spirituality in the context of the ubiquitous medieval notion of Christ the Physician, and thus a new way of interpreting the Book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843846845
• ISBN13: 9781843846840
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"