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003			OCoLC
005			20240726105039.0
008			160831t20172017nyu ob 001 0 eng
010			_a2016040225
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _epn _cDLC _dNT _dP@U _dIDEBK _dJSTOR _dEBLCP _dIDB _dOTZ _dIOG _dDEGRU _dMERUC _dEZ9 _dUKOUP _dOCLCF _dIGB _dAUW _dBTN _dMHW _dINTCL _dSNK _dBRX _dG3B _dS8I _dS8J _dNRC _dSTF _dD6H _dAGLDB _dLEAUB _dM8D _dUKAHL _dK6U _dESU _dDLC _dOCLCO _dVT2 _dOCLCQ
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050	0	0	_aPR2007 _b.M374 2017
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aKrug, Rebecca, _e1
245	1	0	_aMargery Kempe and the lonely reader /Rebecca Krug.
260			_aIthaca : _bCornell University Press, _c(c)2017.
300			_a1 online resource
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_aComfort -- _tDespair -- _tShame -- _tFear -- _tLoneliness.
520	0		_aSince its rediscovery in 1934, the fifteenth-century Book of Margery Kempe has become a canonical text for students of medieval Christian mysticism and spirituality. Its author was a fifteenth-century English laywoman who, after the birth of her first child, experienced vivid religious visions and vowed to lead a deeply religious life while remaining part of the secular world. After twenty years, Kempe began to compose with the help of scribes a book of consolation, a type of devotional writing found in late medieval religious culture that taught readers how to find spiritual comfort and how to feel about one's spiritual life. In Margery Kempe and the Lonely Reader, Rebecca Krug shows how and why Kempe wrote her Book, arguing that in her engagement with written culture she discovered a desire to experience spiritual comfort and to interact with fellow believers who also sought to live lives of intense emotional engagement. An unlikely candidate for authorship in the late medieval period given her gender and lack of formal education, Kempe wrote her Book as a revisionary act. Krug shows how the Book reinterprets concepts from late medieval devotional writing (comfort, despair, shame, fear, and loneliness) in its search to create a spiritual community that reaches out to and includes Kempe, her friends, family, advisers, and potential readers. Krug offers a fresh analysis of the Book as a written work and draws attention to the importance of reading, revision, and collaboration for understanding both Kempe's particular decision to write and the social conditions of late medieval women's authorship.
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600	1	0	_aKempe, Margery, _dapproximately 1373- --
600	1	0	_aKempe, Margery, _dapproximately 1373-
600	1	1	_aKempe, Margery, _dapproximately 1373-
600	1	1	_aKempe, Margery, _dapproximately 1373- --
650		0	_aWomen authors, English _yMiddle English, 1100-1500 _vBiography.
650		0	_aChristian pilgrims and pilgrimages _vEarly works to 1800.
650		0	_aChristian women _xReligious life _zEngland.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1500508&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell