The Revelations of Margery Kempe: Paramystical Practices in Late Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Hirsh, John C.
The Revelations of Margery Kempe: Paramystical Practices in Late Medieval England
- Published
- Leiden : E. J. Brill, 1989.
- Physical Description
- 127 pp.
- Series
- Medieval and Renaissance Authors Series, vol. 20
- Description
- A defense of Margery Kempe's religious visions, with extended discussions of other medieval devotional and mystical works,including the writings of Julian of Norwich, Richard Rolle,and Margaret Porete as well as devotional prayers recorded in MS Bodley 789.
- Hirsh draws at length on American Pentecostal meetings he attended in the late 1970s and on several studies of the psychology of religion published in the last two decades. He defines paramystical practices as those "found on the boundaries between mysticism and devotion," noting that "religion exists in persons, not in books."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.