Margery Kempe's Meditations: The Context of Medieval Devotional Literatures, Liturgy and Iconography

by Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa

Overview

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.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780708319109
Publisher:	University of Wales Press
Publication date:	07/01/2007
Series:	University of Wales Press - Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages Series
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa is professor of English at Shizuoka University in Japan.

Table of 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