Domestic Ideals and Devotional Authority in The Book of Margery Kempe
Margery Kempe scholarship has not given enough credit to medieval conduct books and their influence on the construction of Margery in The Book of Margery Kempe. This article argues that as a work intending to offer a devotional example to readers, the Book uses the ideals of a domestic woman describ...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Penn State Univ. Press
2014
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Journal of medieval religious cultures
Year: 2014, Volume: 40, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-19 |
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Margery Kempe; domestic ideals; medieval conduct literature; devotional authority
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