![]() ![]() Since then, it has attained canonical status. ![]() The Book of Margery Kempe was essentially unknown from the sixteenth century until the remarkable rediscovery of the sole manuscript in the 1930s. Unlike an anchoress or a nun, Margery is thoroughly rooted in the world, and the Book details the extreme hardships that come from following a spiritual life while still being a medieval laywoman. She becomes a visionary prophet who shares an intimate relationship with Christ she travels extensively across England and much further-afield on pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela she imaginatively reenacts and participates in scenes from Christ’s life. It details Margery’s life as a well-to-do wife, mother, and businesswoman who is dramatically called to a spiritual vocation. The Book of Margery Kempe (written around 1436–1438) tells the eventful life story of a fifteenth-century woman from Bishop’s Lynn (now King’s Lynn) in Norfolk. ![]()
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