 | Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh Subjects: Kempe Margery b. ca 1373. Book of Margery Kempe; Christian literature English (Middle) -- History and criticism; Mysticism -- England -- History -- Middle Ages 600–1500; Women Christian -- England -- Religious life -- History; Flesh (Theology) in lit; "A feminist analysis of the writing of the fifteenth-century English mystic, showing how Kempe exploited the gendered ideologies of flesh and text, violated taboos, and responded to the constraints of her time."--Book News, Inc. Karma Lochrie is Ruth Halls Professor of English at Indiana University. She is the author of Covert Operations: The Medieval Uses of Secrecy, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
