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'A feminist analysis of the writing of the fifteenth-century English mystic, showing how Kempe exploited the gendered ideologies of flesh and text, violated taboos, and responded to the constraints of her time.'-Book News, Inc.
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Karma Lochrie is Ruth Halls Professor of English at Indiana University. She is the author of Covert Operations: The Medieval Uses of Secrecy, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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Karma Lochrie demonstrates that women were associated not with the body but rather with the flesh, that disruptive aspect of body and soul which Augustine claimed was fissured with the Fall of Man. It is within this framework that she reads "The Book of Margery Kempe", demonstrating the ways in which Kempe exploited the gendered ideologies of flesh and text through her controversial practices of writing, her inappropriate-seeming laughter, and the most notorious aspect of her mysticism, her "hysterical" weeping expressions of religious desire. Lochrie challenges prevailing scholarly assumptions of Kempe's illiteracy, her role in the writing of her book, her misunderstanding of mystical concepts, and the failure of her book to influence a reading community.In her work and her life, Kempe consistently crossed the barriers of those cultural taboos designed to exclude and silence her. Instead of viewing Kempe as marginal to the great mystical and literary traditions of the late Middle Ages, this study takes her seriously as a woman responding to the cultural constraints and exclusions of her time.
"Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh" will be of interest to students and scholars of medieval studies, intellectual history, and feminist theory."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0812215575
- ISBN 13 9780812215571
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages268
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