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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

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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...

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Published in: Spicilegium: Online Journal of Japan Society for Medieval European Studies
Published: 2021
Online Access: http://www.spicilegium.net/index.html#\34
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