Margery Kempe's Meditations
The Context of Medieval Devotional Literatures, Liturgy and Iconography
Distributed for University of Wales Press
224 pages
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3 halftones
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5-3/4 x 8-1/2
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© 2007
Since its rediscovery in 1934, The Book of Margery Kempe has generally been judged as over-emotional and naïve.
Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa argues instead that The Book of Margery Kempe is a creative experience of memory as spiritual progress. Yoshikawa explores Margery's meditational experience in the context of the visual and verbal iconography and provides a comprehensive analysis of Margery's meditative experience as it is structured in the book, paying particular attention to develop a coherent theology of the five major meditational expreiences that influence Kempe's spiritual progress.
Contents
Introduction
1. Margery’s Conversion in Advent and Infancy Meditation
2. The Jerusalem Pilgrimage and Spiritual Progress
3. Passion Meditation
4. Purification and Holy Dalliance
5. Mixed Life
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