Mystic and Pilgrim

by Clarissa W. Atkinson

Book Overview

Margery Kempe, a middle-class English housewife at the turn of the fifteenth century, was called to weep and to pray for her fellow Christians and to adopt an unconventional way of life. Separating herself from her husband and many children, she became a pilgrim travelling around England and as far away as Jerusalem. In old age, she dictated to scribes an autobiography that recounts her extraordinary intimacy with Christ as well as her intense,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801415217
• ISBN13: 9780801415210
• Release Date: June 1983
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher