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    • The Book of Margery Kempe is a medieval text attributed to Margery Kempe, an English Christian mystic and pilgrim who lived at the turn of the fifteenth century. It details Kempe's life, her travels, her accounts of divine revelation including her visions of interacting with the Trinity, particularly Jesus, as well as other biblical figures. These interactions take pla… See more

    Original titleThe boke of Margerie Kempe of Lynn
    Originally publishedJanuary 1, 1438
    GenreClassics · History · Medieval · Nonfiction · Biography · Religion · Memoir · School · Autobiography · 15th Century
    Content

    Kempe's book is written in the third person, employing the phrase "this creature" when referring to Kempe in order to display humility before God, via the distancing from her self by abandoning the first-person narrative fo… See more

    Manuscript features

    The Book of Margery Kempe is in the possession of the British Library. The manuscript has been digitized and can can be viewed online. Written in Gothic Cursive hand, it consists of 124 folio pages, measuring … See more

     
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