Encountering the Book of Margery Kempe

Introduction: Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe in the twenty-first century – Laura Kalas and Laura Varnam Part I: Textual encounters 1 Before Margery: The Book of Margery Kempe and its antecedents – Diane Watt 2 The intertextual dialogue and conversational theology of Mechthild of Hackeborn and Margery Kempe – Liz Herbert McAvoy and Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa 3 The prayers of Margery Kempe: a reassessment – Josephine A. Koster Part II: Internal encounters 4 The Book of Margery Kempe: autobiography in the third person – Ruth Evans 5 Margery Kempe as de-facement – Johannes Wolf 6 Margery Kempe, oral history, and the value of intersubjectivity – Katherine J. Lewis 7 ‘A booke of hyr felyngys’: exemplarity and Margery Kempe’s encounters of the heart – Laura Varnam Part III: Encountering the world 8 Margery Kempe’s home town and worthy kin – Susan Maddock 9 A women’s network in fifteenth-century Rome: Margery Kempe encounters ‘Margaret Florentyne’ – Anthony Bale and Daniela Giosuè 10 Margery Kempe, racialised soundscapes, sonic warss and cosmopolitan Jerusalem – Dorothy Kim 11 The materialisation of Book II: elements of Margery Kempe’s world – Laura Kalas Part IV: Performative encounters 12 Writing performed lives: Margery Kempe meets Marina Abramovic – Sarah Salih 13 Recreating and reassessing Margery and Julian’s encounter – Tara Williams Index -- .