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From back cover: This unique biography tells the story of an extraordinary fifteenth-century woman who journeyed all over Europe from England to the Holy Land. A vigorous and passionate woman, Margery Kempe was married and had fourteen children when she deserted her family to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to expiate a "secret sin" in her early life. Along the way she meets many famous prelates and dignitaries, gets into all sorts of scrapes, and survives a feverish voyage in the stinking galleys of a Venetian boat.
Drawing on the chronicles of her contemporaries and on her own clear-eyed autobiography -- dictated to a priest near the end of her life and said to be the first written in English -- these memoirs reveal a woman who has strange ideas about such things as sin and sainthood, dress, diet, and sex, and provides a colorful and detailed picture of everyday medieval life in England and around the rim of the Mediterranean. Part-time historian Louise Collis brings a novelist's flair to this fascinating, well-researched story.
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Memoirs of a medieval woman: the life and times of Margery Kempe
1983, Harper & Row
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Memoirs of a medieval woman: the life and times of Margery Kempe
1983, Harper Colophon Books
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Memoirs of a Medieval Woman: The Life and Times of Margery Kempe
January 19, 1983, c1964, Harper Perennial, Harper & Row
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"Margery Brunham, or Burnham, was born about 1373 in Bishop's Lynn, as King's Lynn was then called, in Norfolk."
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Originally published 1964 in England by Thomas Y. Crowell Company under the title The Apprentice Saint.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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