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EPISODE · Oct 26, 2006 · 33 MIN

The Book of Margery Kempe

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Take one Medieval chick, throw in some travel, imprisonment, hysteria, sex, visions, and a few famous people and voilà: you have The Book of Margery Kempe. This podcast includes some background history and literary discussion of one of the most controversial female figures in the Middle Ages. (This was created as a supplement to a lecture I am giving to an undergraduate world literature class and is for didactic purposes only.)

Take one Medieval chick, throw in some travel, imprisonment, hysteria, sex, visions, and a few famous people and voilà: you have The Book of Margery Kempe. This podcast includes some background history and literary discussion of one of the most controversial female figures in the Middle Ages. (This was created as a supplement to a lecture I am giving to an undergraduate world literature class and is for didactic purposes only.)

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