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Mechthild of Hackeborn and Margery Kempe: An Intertextual Conversation
Liz Herbert McAvoy,
Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa
Spicilegium: Online Journal of Japan Society for Medieval European Studies, Volume: 4, Pages: 1 - 20
Swansea University Author: Liz Herbert McAvoy
Abstract
This article examines the many resonances between the writing of the German, late thirteenth-century visionary nun, Mechthild of Hackeborn (d. 1298) and the late medieval English visionary writer, Margery Kempe (d. after 1438). It contends that Margery Kempe had read Mechthild's work (or had it...
| Published in: | Spicilegium: Online Journal of Japan Society for Medieval European Studies |
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| Published: |
2021
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| Online Access: |
http://www.spicilegium.net/index.html#\34 |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa56107 |
| Abstract: |
This article examines the many resonances between the writing of the German, late thirteenth-century visionary nun, Mechthild of Hackeborn (d. 1298) and the late medieval English visionary writer, Margery Kempe (d. after 1438). It contends that Margery Kempe had read Mechthild's work (or had it read to her) and modelled much of her own spiritiually, and its articulation in her book, upon that of Mechthild. |
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| Keywords: |
Medieval Literature; Women's Writing; Mysticism; Mechthild of Hackeborn; Helfta; Margery Kempe. |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Start Page: |
1 |
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20 |