MARGERY KEMPE: HER LIFE
AND THE EARLY HISTORY OF HER BOOK

CHARITY SCOTT STOKES
© MYSTICS QUARTERLY, 25 (MARCH/JUNE 1999)

Contents

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES

INTRODUCTION

LATE MEDIEVAL LYNN

MARGERY KEMPE’S FAMILY BACKGROUND AND  EARLY YEARS, 1373–1393

MARRIAGE AND CONVERSION TO RELIGIOUS LIFE, 1393–1413

YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE AND ECCLESIASTICAL INVESTIGATION, 1413–1418

PIETY AND WORKS OF MERCY IN LYNN, FIRST DRAFT OF LIBER I OF THE BOOK OF MARGERY KEMPE, 1418–1431

TRAVELS TO THE BALTIC, WILSNACK AND AACHEN, 1433–1434

LAST YEARS, RE-DRAFTING OF LIBER I, WRITING OF LIBER II

TRANSMISSION OF THE TEXT

NOTES

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