Buch
Monografie
Memoirs of a Medieval woman : the life and times of Margery Kempe
Verfasst von:
Collis, Louise
New York:
Harper & Row
,
1983
,
269 S.
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| Einrichtung: | belladonna | Bremen |
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| Signatur: | B-489 |
| Verfasst von: | Collis, Louise |
| Jahr: | 1983 |
| Beschreibung: | kart. |
| ISBN: | 0060909927 |
| Sprache: | Deutsch |
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| This unique biography tells the story of an extraordinary fifteenth-century woman who journeyed all over Europe from England to the Holy Land. A vigorous and passionate woman, Margery Kempe was married and had fourteen children when she deserted her family to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to expiate a "secret sin" in her early life. Along the way she meets many famous prelates and dignitaries, gets into all sorts off scrapes, and survives a feverish voyage in the stinking galleys of a Venetian boat. Drawing on the chronicles of her contemporaries and on her own clear-eyed autobiography - dictated to a priest near the end of her life and said to be the first written in English - these memoirs reveal a woman who has strange ideas about such things as sin and sainthood, dress, diet, and sex, and provides a colorful and detailed picture of everyday medieval life in England and around the rim of the Mediterranean. Part-time historian Louise Collis brings a novelist's flair to this fascinating well-researched story. | |
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