The Book of Margery Kempe
You can boldly take me in the arms of your soul and kiss my mouth, my head, and my feet as sweetly as you want The story of the eventful and controversial life of Margery Kempe - wife, mother, businesswoman, pilgrim and visionary - is the earliest surviving autobiography in English. Here Kemp recounts in vivid, unembarrassed detail the madness that followed the birth of the first of her fourteen children, the failure of her brewery business, her dramatic call to the spiritual life, her visions and uncontrollable tears, the struggle to convert her husband to a vow of chastity and her pilgrimages to Europe and the Holy Land. Margery Kempe coul…
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Weitere Autoren: Windeatt, Barry / Windeatt, Barry
- ISBN: 978-0-14-043251-0
- EAN: 9780140432510
- Produktnummer: 19344763
- Verlag: Penguin Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1986
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H19.9 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.0 cm 247 g
- Gewicht: 247
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Barry Windeatt is a professor of English at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He translated The Book of Margery Kempe for Penguin Classics.Barry Windeatt is a professor of English at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He translated The Book of Margery Kempe for Penguin Classics.
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