The book of Margery Kempe - A Norton Critical Edition

Margery Kempe

W.W Norton & Company, INC

2001

326 páginas

10h 52m

ISBN-10: B01K0U8BIC

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.