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	Literary Encyclopedia: Margery Kempe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Margery's children, for example, are mentioned only in passing until the sins, penitence and edifying death of her eldest son offer the opportunity to write a conversion narrative.
		Margery's initial desire to confess without a priestly intermediary suggests sympathy with Lollard views and it may be that the sin which was the instance of her failure to confess concerned heterodox beliefs.
		Margery was described as hysterical upon the rediscovery of the Book, and suggestions that she suffered from mental or physical illness have continued to appear in recent criticism, with diagnoses including post-partum psychosis, epilepsy and histrionic personality disorder.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5093 (1860 words)

	kempebib
		Kempe’s move away from the contemplative life as well as actively professing her faith moved religious participation from the realm of the elite clergy into that of the people.
		It is an interesting study which looks at Margery as a dichotomous entity: one part of her living the secular, gritty life of a fifteenth century woman and the other as a projection of spirituality.
		Margery’s piety, pilgrimage, and charity are described as challenging the existing ecclesiastical norms and thus become a struggle for Margery as well as for church authorities.
	chass.colostate-pueblo.edu /history/seminar/kempe/kempebib.htm (7599 words)

	Margery Kempe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Margery's decades of reported torment from weeping and "roaring" are, however, usually played out in public, in front of unsympathetic audiences who are neither family nor friends (apparently she never had a circle of disciples or "meyne" for a more private audience), exposing Margery to continuous social slanders and censure.
		Margery's status as a visionary in public, whose visions are not directly available to the social gaze, makes her body a performing holy text which must live and circulate to confront the texts of the bourgeoisie of the spirit.
		Kempe's engagement with Lollardy and the larger issues of dissent and disobedience is central to and inseparable from her spirituality.
	artfuljesus.0catch.com /lit-opera/kempe.html (19327 words)

	The Book of Margery Kempe: Introduction
		Margery's disengagement from conventional female roles and duties — and consequently her daring rejection of the values of her fellow townspersons — is a response to her growing commitment to her spiritual vocation.
		Margery does what very few are able finally to do, and the fact that she does so as a woman enhances the force of her story — she breaks away.
		Margery's first cry (chapter 28) is highlighted by the words, "nota de clamore," a noun that describes the "noise" of penitential grief that could be heard in monasteries after the consecration of the host.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/teams/kempint.htm (4944 words)

	Margery Kempe
		Margery references a sin for which she would seek to "atone" for the remainder of her life, and all of her history shows one of terrible agitation and an intense need to be humiliated and punished.
		Margery’s contrition (for that unnamed sin of youth and for others) is genuine, and one could not doubt her seeking union with God, however misguided her efforts may have been.
		Margery was suspected of being a Lollard because her preaching was seen as assuming a function reserved to the clergy, and therefore as a denial of the apostolic succession.
	www.gloriana.nu /margery.html (1882 words)

	Margery Kempe's Mysticism Explored - Elizabeth Brenneman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I determined that Kempe was an authentic mystic based on her devotion to a mystical lifestyle even in the face of ridicule and hardship, and because of her determination to live her life devoted to Christ.
		Margery Kempe was not the most highly demonstrative female mystic of the Middle Ages, nor was she the first female mystic.
		Kempe may seem crazy or deluded to the modern reader; however, when she is put into context of the female mystic of the Middle Ages she does not seem that crazy or even unusual after all.
	www.iusb.edu /~journal/2002/brenneman/brenneman.html (3071 words)

	ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
		Margery Kempe was the daughter of John Burnham, five times mayor of the town of Lynn, a flourishing town of Norfolk.
		Margery finally grew desperate, and one night when John was making amorous advances, she screamed "Oh Dear Jesu Christ, Save me, Jesus?" A miracle happened, and John didn't feel amorous any more.
		Margery gives no indication that she recognized that many observers of her transports may have had serious misgivings of her orthodoxy.
	www.the-orb.net /textbooks/nelson/margery.html (2448 words)

	A Visit with Margery Kempe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Margery Kempe was born somewhere around the year 1373 and died somewhere around the year 1438--the period of the first flowering of literature in English.
		Margery perceived herself punished by God and she "saw devils opening their mouths, their insides full of fire, grabbing at her and uttering threats." She was truly in torment, verbally attacking her husband and parents, and contemplating suicide.
		Margery, however, appears to have been totally sincere in her attempt to live her "life in Christ." One of her goals was to be recognized as a "spiritual woman," though, unlike her contemporary Julian of Norwich, Margery neither followed a formal religious discipline nor entered a religious order.
	www.trinitycathedral.org /ccckempe.html (3359 words)

	Kempe,Margery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Margery married around 1393 at the age of 20 to John Kempe, a successful merchant and a public official.
		Brief Itinerary: Margery began her pilgrimage in the autumn of 1413 from her hometown of Kings Lynn, (in what is today Norfolk County) England.
		Taking up a male escort, Margery left her traveling companions and set out on foot from Venice to Chioggia southwards through Ravenna and Rimini to Pesarro, then inland over the mountains to Assisi and finally reaching Rome in the summer of 1414.
	chass.colostate-pueblo.edu /history/seminar/kempe.htm (423 words)

	Margery Kempe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Some critics stop short of calling Kempe a great mystic, yet it is evident in The Book of Margery Kempe, her colorful and at times hilarious autobiography, that Kempe had, in her own indomitable way, a profound relationship with God.
		Kempe had "the gift of tears" -- meaning that, for years, she was unable to attend mass without crying profusely, and, as often as not, sobbing loudly and theatrically.
		The extremes of Margery Kempe's spirituality may be off-putting for some, but personally I find her disregard for the censure of others and her willingness to flout convention deeply refreshing.
	www.carlmccolman.com /wsu-kempe.htm (343 words)

	St Mary-the-Virgin, Primrose Hill - Margery Kempe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		St Mary's members should sympathize with Margery Kempe, who was miraculously preserved when nine pounds of masonry and timber from a church vault fell on her while she was praying.
		The trouble lies partly in Kempe's lack of a conventional mystical language such as that of Julian of Norwich, and partly in the nature of her story.
		Born the daughter of the mayor of Lynn, Margery married a burgess called Kempe, living a worldly social life until a period of insanity led to her conversion.
	www.smvph.org.uk /biography/MargeryKempe.php (282 words)

	Nordlit
		Kempe had the opportunity to absorb both the oratorical style of preachers trained in the Ars praedicandi and in scriptural passages read to her.
		Upon this act of divine intervention Margery accepts the conditions put by her husband, cleverly putting her acceptance in the form of an offer in which he is seen to make a concession before she makes hers: Sir, if it like you, ye shall grant me my desire and ye shall have your desire.
		Also, we know that Margery was particularly interested in St. Francis, because when she went on her pilgrimage to Jerusalem, she did not go directly to Rome, but visited first the shrine of the saint at Sta Maria degli Angeli at Porziuncula.
	www.hum.uit.no /nordlit/6/eriksen.html (2981 words)

	Margery Kempe
		According to her Book, Margery Brunham came from "worthy kindred" of the city of Lynn; when she was about 20 years old, she was married to John Kempe of that city and gave birth to 14 children (we don't know how many survived to adulthood).
		When she was about 35 she had a visionary experience and felt that she had been "called from the pride and vanity of this wretched world." She began to live an ascetic life and tried to avoid sexual relations with her husband.
		Margery is mentioned in the records of Lynn in 1439; after that we know nothing of her.
	home.infionline.net /~ddisse/kempe.html (3886 words)

	Amazon.com: Book of Margery Kempe: Books: Margery Kempe,Barry Windeatt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Problems are seen not as tests of her faith or spirit, but as personal attacks on Margery, and they are something to be confronted instead of endured, although Margery pays lip service to the concepts of patience and humility.
		Margery began life as the daughter of the mayor of Lynn in England, and made a well-suited marriage.
		Margery went about a long process of procuring chastity from her husband and set off on pilgrimages world wide.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140432515?v=glance (2430 words)

	Quotes from Margery Kempe
		Margery married John Kempe at age 20, 14 children; briefly, though unsuccessfully, owned a brewery and mill.
		Margery made her confession ("right from childhood to this very moment") and related her consolations, so she tells us, up to three times daily and one cannot help but wonder whether the latter disclosure was the greater trial for the listener!
		The bishop who recommended that Margery consider the matter of the "white clothes," not making the gesture until she returned from her pilgrimage, was rebuked for his concern with worldly opinion - it was a day when God had more taste for the virtue of zeal than of prudence, I imagine.
	www.gloriana.nu /quotesmargery.html (1507 words)

	The Mystics' Internet: Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, Margery of Lynn, Chiara of Pisa and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Julian's manuscripts, like those of Catherine of Siena, are copied out again and again in the context of Syon Abbey, the Abbey deliberately founded in England in accordance with St Birgitta's Rule by Henry V, in response to her desire for peace between England and the rest of the world.
		argery Kempe was illiterate and exhibitionistic but valiantly struggled to imitate the lives of these saints and their book-writing.
		Birgitta, Catherine and Julian are characterised by joy, by laughter, Birgitta's maid servant telling Margery many years later that her mistress had always a laughing cheer, Catherine of Siena being deeply loved by her disciples and joking about God playing a joke upon her, Julian bringing in laughter even at her death-bed scene.
	www.umilta.net /mystics.html (2611 words)

	Margery Kempe
		Margery Kempe was born in Norfolk in about 1373.
		Later, Margery who was illiterate, dictated her life story to a scribe.
		The Mayor of Leicester said Margery was "a Lollard, and a false deceiver of the people, and I shall put you in prison." Margery answered: "I am as ready, sir, to go to prison for God's love, as you are ready to go to church."
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /NORkempe.htm (150 words)

	Margery Kempe
		"Thei stodyn upon stoyls for to beheldyn hir": Margery Kempe and the power of performance (1).
		The Book of Margery Kempe; or, The Diary of a Nobody.
		Breaking the stained glass ceiling: mercantile authority, Margaret Paston, and Margery Kempe.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0827345.html (249 words)

	Margery Kempe: Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Spectacle of Femininity: Allegory and the Denial of Representation in the Book of Margery Kempe, Jane Eyre, and Wonderland.
		Margery Kempe: An Example in the English Pastoral Tradition.
		Watkin, E.I. On Julian of Norwich, and In Defense of Margery Kempe.
	www.luminarium.org /medlit/kempebib.htm (122 words)

	Margery Kempe, Mystic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Born at Lynn in Norfolk in about 1373, Margery married and had fourteen children.
		After she had received several visions, she and her husband went on a pilgimage to Canterbury.
		The Book of Margery Kempe, which is almost the sole source of information about the author, describes her travels and mystical experiences.
	justus.anglican.org /resources/bio/66.html (169 words)

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