Sunday, August 15, 2010

Margery Kempe (c. 1373-1438)

  • Wrote The Book of Margery Kempe, first autobiography in English
  • strove to live life committed to God
  • negotaiated chaste marriage with husband
  • made holy pilgrimages, stories of which comprised much of her book
  • significant for insight to middle class life in the Middle Ages

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