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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.
Margery Kempe (c. 1373 – after 1438) was an English Christian mystic, known for writing through dictation The Book of Margery Kempe, a work considered by some to be the first autobiography in the English language.
Margery Kempe is a well-off middle-class townswoman in the medieval English town of King’s Lynn. After the birth of her first child, Margery has a nervous breakdown, seeing hideous devils all around her. Margery recovers after having a vision of Jesus Christ, and she decides to devote her life to holiness and contemplation of God.
- Margery (Burnham) b. ca. . Kempe, Sanford Brown Meech, Hope Emily Allen
- 1940
Margery Kempe, English religious mystic whose autobiography is one of the earliest in English literature. Apparently illiterate, she dictated her Book of Margery Kempe to two clerks from about 1432 to about 1436. It was first published (modernized) in 1936 and in Middle English in 1940.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Book of Margery Kempe is a medieval text attributed to her, which details her life, her travels, and her accounts of divine revelation, including her visions of interacting with the Trinity, particularly Jesus, as well as other biblical figures.
by: Lynn Staley (Author) from: The Book of Margery Kempe 1996. Written probably in the late 1430s, The Book of Margery Kempe is one of the most astonishing documents of late medieval English life.
Jun 6, 2019 · Margery Kempe (l. c. 1373 - c. 1438 CE) was a medieval mystic and author of the first autobiography in English, The Book of Margery Kempe, which relates her spiritual journey from wife and mother in Bishop's Lynn, England to a chaste Christian visionary and popular – if controversial – public speaker. Kempe was illiterate and dictated her ...
