A Very Material Mysticism of Margery Kempe

Author / Editor
Beckwith, Sarah.

Title
A Very Material Mysticism of Margery Kempe

Published
David Aers, ed. Medieval Literature (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986), pp. 34-57.

Description
Drawing on Lacan and feminist criticism, Beckwith examines female mysticism as the only public expression permitted women in the Middle Ages and discusses the Otherness of the female and of God.

Alternative Title
Medieval Literature: Criticism, Ideology, and History.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.