Further Reading
Aers, D., Community, Gender, and Individual Identity: English Writing 1360–1430 (London, 1988), chapter 2.
Arnold, J. and Lewis, K. (eds.), A Companion to Margery Kempe (Woodbridge, 2004).
Aston, M., Lollards and Reformers: Images and Literacy in Late Medieval Religion (London, 1984).
Atkinson, C. W., Mystic and Pilgrim: The Book and the World of Margery Kempe (Cornell, 1983).
Barratt, A. (ed.) Women’s Writing in Middle English (London, 1992).
Beckwith, S., ‘A Very Material Mysticism: The Medieval Mysticism of Margery Kempe’, in D. Aers (ed.). Medieval Literature: Criticism, Ideology and History (Brighton, 1988) pp. 34–57.
Beckwith, S., ‘Problems of Authority in Late Medieval English Mysticism: Agency and Authority in The Book of Margery Kempe’, Exemplaria, 4 (1992), 171–200.
Beckwith, S., Christ’s Body: Identity, Culture and Society in Late Medieval Writings (London, 1993), chapter 4 (‘The uses of Corpus Christi and The Book of Margery Kempe’).
Beer, F., Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages (Wood-bridge, 1992).
Bennett, H. S., Six Medieval Men and Women (Cambridge, 1955).
Bhattacharji, S., God is an Earthquake: The Spirituality of Margery Kempe (London, 1997).
Brundage, J. A., Sex, Law and Marriage in the Middle Ages (Aldershot, 1993).
Bynum, Caroline W., Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages (Berkeley, 1982).
Bynum, Caroline W., Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (Berkeley, 1987).
Cholmeley, K., Margery Kempe: Genius and Mystic (London, 1947).
Clay, R. M., The Hermits and Anchorites of England (London, 1914).
Cleve, G., ‘Margery Kempe: A Scandinavian Influence in Medieval England?’, in The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England, V, ed. M. Glasscoe (Woodbridge, 1992), pp. 162–78.
Colledge, E., ‘Margery Kempe’, in Pre-Reformation English Spirituality, ed. J. Walsh (London, 1965).
Collis, L., The Apprentice Saint (London, 1964).
Delany, S., Writing Woman: Women Writers and Women in Literature, Medieval to Modern (New York, 1983), pp. 76–92.
Despres, D., Ghostly Sights: Visual Meditation in Late–Medieval Literature (Norman, Okla., 1989).
Dickman, S., ‘Margery Kempe and the English Devotional Tradition’, in The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England, I, ed. M. Glasscoe (Exeter, 1980), pp. 156–72.
Dickman, S., ‘Margery Kempe and the Continental Tradition of the Pious Woman’, in The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England, in, ed. M. Glasscoe (Woodbridge, 1984), pp. 150–68.
Dinshaw, C, ‘Margery Kempe’, in C. Dinshaw and D. Wallace (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women’s Writing (Cambridge, 2003), pp. 222–39.
Duffy, E., The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, C.1400–C.1580 (New Haven and London, 1992).
Dyas, D., Pilgrimage in Medieval English Literature, 700–1500 (Cambridge, 2001).
Ellis, R., ‘Margery Kempe’s Scribe and the Miraculous Books’, in H. Phillips (ed.), Langland, the Mystics and the Medieval English Religious Tradition (Cambridge, 1990), pp. 161–75.
Erler, M. C, Women, Reading and Piety in Late Medieval England (Cambridge, 2002).
Evans, R. and Johnson, L. (eds.), Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature (London, 1994).
Fries, M., ‘Margery Kempe’, in P. E. Szarmach (ed.), An Introduction to the Medieval Mystics of Europe (Albany, 1984), pp. 217–35.
Gallyon, M., Margery Kempe of Lynn and Medieval England (Norwich, 1995).
Gibson, G. M., The Theater of Devotion: East Anglian Drama and Society in the Late Middle Ages (Chicago, 1989), chapter 3.
Glasscoe, M., English Medieval Mystics: Games of Faith (London, 1993). chapter 6.
Glück, R., Margery Kempe (London, 1994).
Goodman, A., Margery Kempe and her World (Harlow, 2002).
Harding, W., ‘Body into Text: The Book of Margery Kempe’, in L. Lomperis and S. Stanbury (eds.), Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature (Philadelphia, 1993), 168–87.
Heffernan, T. J., Sacred Biography: Saints and their Biographers in the Middle Ages (New York, 1988).
Hirsh, J. C, ‘Author and Scribe in The Book of Margery Kempe’, Medium Aevum, 44 (1975), 145–50.
Hirsh, J. C, ‘Margery Kempe’, in A. S. G. Edwards (ed.), Middle English Prose: A Critical Guide to Major Authors and Genres (New Brunswick, 1984), pp. 109–19.
Hirsh, J. C, The Revelations of Margery Kempe: Paramystical Practices in Late Medieval England (Leiden, 1989).
Holbrook, S. E., ‘Margery Kempe and Wynkyn de Worde’, in The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England, IV, ed. M. Glasscoe (Woodbridge, 1987), 27–46.
Howes, L. L., ‘On the Birth of Margery Kempe’s Last Child’, Modern Philology, 90 (1992), 220–25.
Hudson, A., The Premature Reformation: Wycliffite Texts and Lollard History (Oxford, 1988).
Hussey, S. S., ‘The Audience for the Medieval Mystics’, in M. G. Sargent (ed.), De Cella in Seculum: Religious and Secular Life and Devotion in Late Medieval England (Cambridge, 1989), pp. 109–22.
Kieckhefer, R., Unquiet Souls: Fourteenth-Century Saints and their Religious Milieu (Chicago, 1984).
Knowles, D., The English Mystical Tradition (London, 1961).
Knowles, D., The Religious Orders in England, vol. 2 (Cambridge, 1957).
Kurtz, P. D., ‘Mary of Oignies, Christine the Marvellous, and Medieval Heresy’, Mystics Quarterly, 14 (1988), 186–96.
Lachance, P., The Spiritual Journey of Angela of Foligno (London, 1985).
Lachance, P. (trans.), Angela of Foligno: Complete Works (Mahwah, 1993).
Lawes, R., ‘The Madness of Margery Kempe,’ in The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England, VI, ed. M. Glasscoe (Woodbridge; 1999), pp. 147–67.
Lewis, K., The Cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in Late Medieval England (Woodbridge, 2000).
Leyser, H., Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450–1500 (London, 1995).
Lochrie, K., ‘The Book of Margery Kempe: The Marginal Woman’s Quest for Literary Authority’, Journal of Medieval and RenaissanceStudies, 16 (1986), 33–55.
Lochrie, K., Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh (Philadelphia, 1991).
Maisonneuve, R., ‘Margery Kempe and the Eastern and Western Tradition of the “Perfect Fool” ’, in The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England, II, ed. M. Glasscoe (Exeter, 1982), pp. 1–17.
Margherita, G., The Romance of Origins: Language and Sexual Difference in Middle English Literature (Philadelphia, 1994), chapter 1.
McEntire, S. J. (ed.), Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays (New York, 1992).
McNamer, S. (ed.), The Two Middle English Translations of the Revelations of St Elizabeth of Hungary (Heidelberg, 1996).
Meale, C. M. (ed.), Women and Literature in Britain, 1150–1500 (Cambridge, 1993).
Medcalf, S., The Later Middle Ages (London, 1981), chapter 3.
Meech, S. B. and Allen, H. E. (eds.), The Book of Margery Kempe, Early English Text Society, original series, 212 (London, 1940).
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Rubin, M., Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture (Cambridge, 1991).
Sahlin, C. L., Birgitta of Sweden and the Voice of Prophecy (Woodbridge, 2001).
Salih, S., Versions of Virginity in Late Medieval England (Woodbridge, 2001).
Sargent, M. G. (ed.), Nicholas Love’s ‘Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ’ (New York, 1992).
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Staley, L., Margery Kempe’s Dissenting Fictions (Philadelphia, 1994).
Stargardt, Ute, ‘The Beguines of Belgium, the Dominican Nuns of Germany, and Margery Kempe’, in Thomas J. Heffernan (ed.), The Popular Literature of Medieval England (Knoxville, 1985).
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Tanner, N. P., The Church in Late Medieval Norwich 1370–1532 (Toronto, 1984).
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Vauchez, A., Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages, trans. J. Birrell (Cambridge, 1997).
Voaden, R. (ed.), Prophets Abroad: The Reception of Continental Holy Women in Late-Medieval England (Cambridge, 1996).
Voaden, R., God’s Words, Women’s Voices: The Discernment of Spirits in the Writing of Late-Medieval Women Visionaries (York, 1999).
Wallace, D., ‘Mystics and Followers in Siena and East Anglia’, in The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England, III, ed. M. Glasscoe (Woodbridge, 1984), pp. 169-91.
Watkins, E. I., Poets and Mystics (London, 1953), chapter 6 (‘In Defence of Margery Kempe’).
Watt, D., Secretaries of God: Woman Prophets in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (Cambridge, 1997), chapter 2.
Watt, D. (ed.), Medieval Women In their Communities (Cardiff, 1997).
Webb, D., Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in the Medieval West (London, 1999).
Weissman, H. P., ‘Margery Kempe in Jerusalem: Hysterica Compasslo in the late Middle Ages’, in M. J. Carruthers and E. D. Kirk (eds.), Acts of Interpretation: The Text and Its Contexts 700–1600. Essays in Medieval Renaissance Literature in Honor of E. T. Donaldson (Norman, Okla., 1982), pp. 201–17.
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