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Manuscript and Early Print
London, British Library, MS Additional 61823 (Sole surviving manuscript witness for The Book of Margery Kempe).
Here begynneth a shorte treatyse of contemplacyon taught by our lorde Jhesu cryste, or taken out of the boke of Margerie kempe of lyn[n]. London: Wynkyn de Worde, 1501 (STC 14924).
“A Short Treatyse of Contemplation taught by our Lord Jesu Christ, or taken out of the Book of Margery Kempe, Ancress of Lynn.” In The Cell of Self-Knowledge: seven Early English Mystical Treatises printed by Henry Pepwell mcxxi. Ed. Edmund G. Gardner. London: Henry Pepwell, 1521 (STC 20972).
Editions
Kempe, Margery. The Book of Margery Kempe. EETS no. 212 O.S. London: Early English Text Society, 1940.
-----. The Book of Margery Kempe, Fourteen Hundred and Thirty-Six. Ed. W. Butler- Bowdon. New York: The Devlin-Adair Co., 1944.
-----. The Book of Margery Kempe. Ed. Barry A. Windeatt Woodbridge, UK: Brewer, 2004.
-----. The Book of Margery Kempe. Ed. Lynn Staley. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Texts, 1996.
-----. Il libro di Margery Kempe. Autobiografia spirituale di una laica del Quattrocento. Ed. G. Del Lungo Camiciotti. Milano: Àncora, 2002.
Translations
The Book of Margery Kempe 1436: A Modern Version. Trans. W. Butler-Bowdon, London, Cape, 1936; rept. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956.
The Book of Margery Kempe. Trans. Barry A. Windeatt. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1985.
Le livre: une mystique anglaise au temps de l'hérésie lollarde. (French) Trans. Daniel Vidal. Sainte-Agnès: Millon,1987.
Le livre de Margery Kempe: une aventurière de la foi au Moyen Âge. (French) Trans. Louise Magdinier. Paris: Cerf, 1989.
The Autobiography of the Madwoman of God: The Book of Margery Kempe. A New Translation. Trans. Tony D. Triggs. Ligouri: Triumph Books, 1995.
The Book of Margery Kempe. Trans. John Skinner. New York: Doubleday, 1998.
The Book of Margery Kempe, A New Translation, Contexts and Criticism. Trans. and ed. Lynn Staley. New York: Norton, 2001.
The Book of Margery Kempe: An Abridged Translation. Translated from the Middle English with Introduction, Notes and Interpretive Essay. Trans. Liz Herbert McAvoy. Woodbridge, UK and Rochester, NY: Brewer, 2003.
The Book of Margery Kempe. Trans. and intro. by Anthony Bale. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Performances and Retellings
Figes, Eva. The True Tale of Margery Kempe. London: BBC Radio 2, 1985.
Glück, Robert. Margery Kempe. High Risk Books, 1994.
Barnhouse, R. The book of the maidservant. New York: Random House, 2009.
Studies in Books, Chapters, and Articles
Adams, J. “Breaking the waves: Margery Kempe goes south.” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 18(2011): 97-109.
Aers, David. Community, Gender and Individual Identity. English Writing 1360-1430. London: Routledge, 1988.
Akel, C. S. “'... A Schort Tretys and a Comfortybl ...': Perception and purpose of Margery Kempe’s narrative.” English Studies 82(2001): 1-13.
Allen, V. “As the crow flies: Roads and pilgrimage.” Essays in Medieval Studies 25(2009): 27-38.
Archibald, Elizabeth. "Sisters Under the Skin: Margery Kempe and Christine de Pizan." In Romance and rhetoric: Essays in honour of Dhira B. Mahoney. Edited by Dhira B. Mahoney, Georgina Donavin, and Anita Obermeier, Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. 91-108.
Armstrong, Elizabeth Psakis. "‘Understanding by Feeling’ in Margery Kempe’s Book." In Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays, ed. Sandra McEntire, New York: Garland Publishing, Inc, 1992. 17-36.
Arnell, C. "Chaucer's Wife of Bath and John Fowles's Quaker Maid: Tale-telling and the trial of personal experience and written authority." Modern Language Review 10 (2007): 933-946.
Arnold, John H. and Katherine J. Lewis. A Companion to the Book of Margery Kempe, Woodbridge, UK: Boydell and Brewer, 2004.
Arnold, John. H. “Margery’s Trials: Heresy, Lollardy and Dissent.” In Arnold and Lewis, A Companion to the Book of Margery Kempe. 75-94.
Astell, Ann W. Lay sanctity, medieval and modern: A search for models. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press., 2000.
Atkinson, Clarissa W. Mystic and Pilgrim: The Book and the Word of Margery Kempe. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Bagshaw, D., & Bagshaw, D. Cell talk: A duologue between Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe. Peterborough: Radius, 2002.
Bale, Anthony. "Richard Salthouse of Norwich and the Scribe of The Book of Margery Kempe." Chaucer Review 52 (2017): 173-187.
G. Ballard, "Memoirs of Margery Kempe." In Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain: Who Have Been Celebrated for Their Writings or Skill in the Learned Languages, Arts, and Sciences.Oxford: W. Jackson, 1752), 8.
Barr, J. Willing to know God: Dreamers and visionaries in the later Middle Ages. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010.
Barratt, Alexandra. “Margery Kempe and the King’s Daughter of Hungary.” In Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays, ed. Sandra McEntire. New York: Garland, 1992. 189- 201.
Barron, Caroline M. Pilgrim souls: Margery Kempe and other women pilgrims. London: Confraternity of Saint James, 2004.
Bartlett, A. “Reading it personally: Robert Glük, Margery Kempe, and language in crisis.” Exemplaria 16(2004): 437-456.
Beaulieu, Katharine. "Her Body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost: Why Margery Kempe is a Better ‘Virgin.’" Magistra 23 (2017): 90-96.
Benedict, K. M. Empowering collaborations: Writing partnerships between religious women and scribes in the Middle Ages. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Bennett, H. S., Six Medieval Men and Women, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1955
Bhattacharji, Santha. God Is An Earthquake: The Spirituality of Margery Kempe, London: Darton, Longman, and Todd, 1997.
Bodden, M.-C. Language as the site of revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England: Speaking as a woman. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
-----. "The Uses of Corpus Christi and The Book of Margery Kempe." In Christ's Body: Identity, Culture and Society in Late Medieval Writings. London: Routledge, 1993. 78-111.
-----. “Problems of Authority in Late Medieval English Mysticism: Agency and Authority in The Book of Margery Kempe.” Exemplaria 4 (1992): 171-200.
-----. "A Very Material Mysticism: The Medieval Mysticism of Margery Kempe." In Medieval Literature: Criticism, Ideology and History, ed. David Aers. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1986. 34-57.
Boffey, Julia. “Middle English Lives.” In The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, ed. David Wallace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 610-634.
Bosse, R. B., “Margery Kempe's tarnished reputation: a reassessment.” Fourteenth- Century Mystics Newsletter 5 (1979): 9-19.
Bowers, Terence N. “Margery Kempe as Traveler.” Studies in Philology 97 (2000): 1-28.
Bradford, C. “Mother, Maiden, Child: Gender as Performance in The Book of Margery Kempe.” In Feminist Poetics of the Sacred: Creative Suspicions. Ed. Frances Devlin- Glass and Lyn McCredden. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 165-181.
Call, J. “The song of Margery Kempe.” Christianity & Literature 50 (2001): 439.
Cannon, Christopher. "'Wyth her owen handys': What Women's Literacy Can Teach Us about Langland and Chaucer." Essays in Criticism 66 (2016): 277-300.
Castagna, Valentina. “Margery Kempe and her becoming Authoress.” Textus 19 (2006): 323-337.
-----. Re-Reading Margery Kempe in the 21st Century. New York: P.Lang, 2011.
Chance, Jane. “Unhomely Margery Kempe and St. Catherine of Siena: ‘Comunycacyon’ and ‘conuersacion’ as Homily.” In The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 99-126.
Chapell, Julie A. Perilous Passages: The Book of Margery Kempe 1534-1934. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Cherewatuk, K. “Becoming Male, Medieval mMothering, and Incarnational Theology in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Book of Margery Kempe.” Arthuriana 19 (2009): 15-24.
Cholmeley, Katharine. Margery Kempe, Genius and Mystic. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1947.
Christie, S. “'Thei stodyn upon stoyls for to beheldyn hir': Margery Kempe and the power of performance.” Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: An International Review of English Studies 38 (2002): 93-103.
Clark, K. “Purgatory, punishment, and the discourse of holy widowhood in the high and later Middle Ages.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 16 (2007): 169-203.
Cleve, Gunnel. "Semantic Dimensions in Margery Kempe: 'Whyght Clothys'." Mystics Quarterly 12, no. 4 (Dec. 1986): 162-70.
-----. “Margery Kempe: A Scandinavian Influence in Medieval England?” In The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England, Vol. 4, ed. Marian Glasscoe. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 1992. 162-178.
Cobb, M. “Orthodox editing: medieval versions of Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love and The Book of Margery Kempe.” Leeds Studies in English 35 (2004): 57-79.
Collett, Barry, Travitsky, Betty, and Prescott, Anne Lake. Late Medieval Englishwomen: Julian of Norwich, Marjorie Kempe and Juliana Berners. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2007.
Collis, Louise. The Apprentice Saint. London: M. Joseph, 1964.
-----. Memoirs of a Medieval Woman: The Life and the Times of Margery Kempe. New York: Harper Colophon Books, 1983.
Colón, S. “‘Gostly labowrys’: Vocation and profession in The Book of Margery Kempe.” English Studies 86 (2005): 283-297.
Cooper, C. F. “Miraculous translation in The Book of Margery Kempe.” Studies in Philogy 101 (2004): 270-298.
Cooper-Rompato, Christine F. "The Voice of the Redbreast in The Book of Margery Kempe. Magistra 16 (2010): 77-93.
-----. “’An Alien to Understand Her’: Miraculous and Mundane Translation in The Book of Margery Kempe.” In The Gift of Tongues: Women’s Xenoglossia in the Later Middle Ages. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. 103-142.
-----. "The Sound of the Bellows in The Book of Margery Kempe." Magistra 19 (2013): 3-17.
Corbus, Patricia. “Poem: Homage to a Poor Caitiff, Margery Kempe." Mystics Quarterly 15, no. 4 (Dec.1986): 165.
Craig, L. ‘”Stronger than men and braver than knights’: Women and the pilgrimages to Jerusalem and Rome in the later middle ages.” Journal of Medieval History 29 (2003): 153.
Cullum, P. H. “‘Yf lak of charyte be not ower hynderawance’: Margery Kempe, Lynn, and the Practice of the Spiritual and Bodily Works of Mercy.” In Arnold and Lewis, A Companion to the Book of Margery Kempe. 177-194.
Davis, Isabel. “Men and Margery: Negotiating Medieval Patriarchy.” In Arnold and Lewis, A Companion to the Book of Margery Kempe. 35-54.
Delany, Sheila. “Sexual Economics, Chaucer’s Wife of Bath and The Book of Margery Kempe.” Minnesota Review 5 (1975): 104-15.
Dickman, Susan. "Margery Kempe and the Continental Tradition of the Pious Woman." In The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England, Vol. 3, ed. Marion Glasscoe. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1984. 150-68.
-----. “Margery Kempe and the English Devotional Tradition.” In The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England, Vol 1. Ed. Marion Glasscoe. Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1980. 156-72.
-----. “A Showing of God’s Grace: The Book of Margery Kempe.” In Mysticism and Spirituality in Medieval England. Ed. William F. Pollard and R. Boenig. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer. 159-76.
Dillon, Janet. “Margery Kempe’s Sharp Confessors.” Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 27 (1996): 131-38.
-----. “Holy Women and Their Confessors or Confessors and Their Holy Women? Margery Kempe and Continental Tradition.” In Prophets Abroad: The Reception of Continental Holy Women in Late-Medieval England. Ed. Rosalyn Voaden. Cambridge: Brewer, 1996. 115-140.
-----. “The Making of Desire in The Book of Margery Kempe.” Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 26 (1995): 114-44.
Dinshaw, Carolyn. “Margery Kempe Answers Back.” Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. 143-82.
-----. "Margery Kempe. " In The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing. Edited by Carolyn Dinshaw and and David Wallace. Cambridge, U.K: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 222-239.
-----. How soon is now?: Medieval texts, amateur readers, and the queerness of time. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. 105-128.
Donnelly, C. “Menopausal life as imitation of art: Margery Kempe and the lack of sorority.” Women's Writing 12 (2005): 419-32.
Drucker, T. “The Malaise of Margery Kempe.” New York State Journal of Medicine 72 (1972): 2911-17.
Eberly, Susan. "Margery Kempe, St. Mary Magdalene, and Patterns of Contemplation." Downside Review 107 (1989): 209-23.
Ebersole, G. L. “The Function of Ritual Weeping Revisited: Affective expression and moral discipline.” History of Religions 39 (2000): 211-46.
Ellis, Deborah. “Margery Kempe and the Virgin’s Hot Caudle.” Essays in Arts and Sciences 14 (1985): 1-11.
-----. “Margery Kempe and King’s Lynn.” In Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Ed. Sandra McEntire, 139-64. New York: Garland, 1992.
-----. “The Merchant’s Wife’s Tale: Language, Sex, and Commerce in Margery Kempe and in Chaucer.” Exemplaria 2 (1990): 595-626.
Erwin, Rebecca Schoff, “Early Editing of Margery Kempe in Manuscript and Print,” Journal of the Early Book Society 9 (2006): 75-94.
Erskine, John. "Margery Kempe and Her Models: The Role of the Authorial Voice." Mystics Quarterly 15 (1989): 75-85.
Samuel Fanous, “Measuring the Pilgrim’s Progress: Internal Emphases in The Book of Margery Kempe.” In Writing Religious Women: Female spiritual and textual practices in late medieval England. Ed. Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2000. 157-178.
Fienberg, Nona. “Thematics of Value in The Book of Margery Kempe.” Modern Philology 87 (1989): 132-141.
Foster, Allyson, “A Shorte Treatyse of Contemplacyon: The Book of Margery Kempe in Its Early Print Contexts,” In Arnold and Lewis, A Companion to the Book of Margery Kempe. 95-112.
Fredell, Joel. “Design and Authorship in the Book of Margery Kempe.” Journal of the Early Book Society, 12 (2009): 1-34.
-----. “Margery Kempe: Spectacle and Spiritual Governance.” Philological Quarterly 75 (1996): 132-141.
Fries, Maureen. “Margery Kempe.” In An Introduction to the Medieval Mystics of Europe. Ed. Paul Szarmach. Albany: SUNY Press. 217-235.
Gallyon, Margaret. Margery Kempe of Lynn and Medieval England. Norwich: Canterbury Press, 1995.
Garrett, Charlotte. "The Soul Journey of Margery Kempe: Hysteria, Vision, and Record." InSovereign Lady: Essays on Women in Middle English Literature. Ed. Muriel Whitaker. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities,v. 11. New York: Garland, 1995. 157-70.
Gastle, B. W. Breaking the stained glass ceiling: mercantile authority, Margaret Paston, and Margery Kempe. Studies in The Literary Imagination 36 (2003): 123-47.
Gertz, Genelle. “Confessing Margery Kempe, 1413-1438.” In Heresy Trials and English Women Writers. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 48-76.
Gibson, Gail McMurray. “St. Margery: The Book of Margery Kempe.” In The Theater of Devotion: East Anglian Drama and Society in the Late Middle Ages. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. 47-65.
Glenn, Cheryl. "Author, Audience and Autobiography: Rhetorical Technique in The Book of Margery Kempe." College English 54 (1992): 540-553.
-----. “Reexamining The Book of Margery Kempe: a rhetoric of autobiography.” In Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in Rhetorical Tradition. Ed. Andrea A. Lunsford, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995. 53-72.
-----. “Popular Literacy in the Middle Ages: The Book of Margery Kempe.” In Popular Literacy: Studies in Cultural Practices and Poetics. Ed. John Trimbur. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. 56-73.
Goodman, Anthony. “The Piety of John Brunham’s Daughter of Lynn.” In Medieval Women. Ed. Derek Baker. Oxford: Blackwell, 1978. 347-58.
-----. Margery Kempe and Her World, Old Tappin, NJ: Longman, 2004.
-----. "Margery Kempe." In Medieval holy women in the Christian tradition c. 1100-c. 1500. Edited by A. J. Minnis and Rosalyn Voaden. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2010. 217-240.
González-Álvarez, D., & Pérez-Guerra, J. “Profaning Margery Kempe's tomb or the application of a Constraint-Grammar Parser to a late Middle English text.” International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 9 (2004): 225-51.
Gracey, A. B. “The mystery surrounding The Book of Margery Kempe and its connection with the monks of Mount Grace.” Magistra 15 (2009): 20-38.
Greene, L. D. The discourse of hysteria: The topoi of humility, physicality, and authority in women's rhetoric. Lewiston, N.Y: Edwin Mellen Press, 2009.
Gregory, James Ryan. “’Open therefore the eyes of thine intellect:’ Margery Kempe and The Orcherd of Syon.” Magistra 17 (2011): 89-128.
Hall, K. A. “Teaching Margery Kempe in tandem with The Wife of Bath: Lollardy, mysticism, and ‘wandrynge by the weye’." South Atlantic Review 72 (2007): 59- 71.
Harding, Wendy. "Body into Text: The Book of Margery Kempe." In Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature. Ed. Linda Lomperis and Sarah Stanbury. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. 168-87.
Harvey, Nancy Lenz. "Margery Kempe: Writer as Creature." Philological Quarterly 71 (1992): 173-84.
Heffernan, Carol F. "Margery Kempe: Female Piety in the Late Middle Ages and the English Mystical Tradition." Magistra 20 (2014): 3-20.
Herbert, M. A. L. Authority and the female body in the writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D.S. Brewer, 2004.
Herzog, Brad. “Portrait of a Holy Life: Mnemonic Inventiveness in the Book of Margery Kempe.” In Reading Memory and Identity in the Texts of Medieval European Holy Women. Ed. Margaret Cotter-Lynch and Brad Herzog. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 211-234.
-----. “The Augustinian subject, Franciscan piety, and ‘The Book of Margery Kempe’: An affective appropriation and subversion of authority.” Philological Review 30 (2004): 67-88.
Higgs, Laquita. "Margery Kempe: 'Whete-Breed or Barely-Breed?’" Mystics Quarterly 13 (1987): 57-64.
Hinderer, D. E. “On Rehabilitating Margery Kempe.” Studia Mystica 5 (1982): 27-43.
Hines, Jessica. "Passionate Language: Models of Compassion in Nicholas Love and Margery Kempe." Journal of Medieval & Early Modern Studies. 49 (2019): 265-294.
Hirsh, John C. “Author and Scribe in The Book of Margery Kempe.” Medium Aevum 44 (1975): 145-150.
-----. “Margery Kempe.” In Middle English Prose: A Critical Guide to Major Authors and Genres. Ed. A.S.G. Edwards. New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1984. 109-19.
-----. The Revelations of Margery Kempe: Paramystical Practices in Late Medieval England. Leiden: Brill, 1989.
Holbrook, Sue Ellen. “Order and Coherence in The Book of Margery Kempe.” In The Worlds of Medieval Women: Creativity, Influence, and Imagination. Ed. Constance Berman et al. Morgantown, VA: West Virginia University Press, 1985. 97-110.
-----. “Margery Kempe and Wynkyn de Worde,” in The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England, Vol. 4. Ed. Marion Glasscoe. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer. 27- 46.
-----. “‘About Her’: Margery Kempe’s Book of Telling and Working.” In The Idea of < Medieval Literature. Ed. James Dean and Christian Zacher. Newark: University of Delaware Press. 265-84.
Holloway, Julia B. “Bride, Margery, Julian and Alice: Bridget of Sweden’s Textual Community in Medieval England.” In Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays, ed. Sandra J. McEntire. New York: Garland, 203-21.
Hoppenwasser, Nanda. “The Human Burden of the Prophet: St. Birgitta’s Revelations and The Book of Margery Kempe.” Medieval Perspectives 8 (1993): 153-62.
-----. “A Performance Artist and Her Performance Text: Margery Kempe on Tour.” In Performance and Trans-formation: New Approaches to Late Medieval Spirituality. Ed. M. A. Suydam and J. E. Ziegler. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. 97-131.
-----, and Signe Wegener. “Vox matris: the influence of St. Birgitta's Revelations on The Book of Margery Kempe: St. Birgitta and Margery Kempe as wives and mothers.” In Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers. Ed. Barbara Stevenson and Cynthia Ho. New York, Palgrave, 2001. 61-87.
Hopper, Sarah. Mothers, mystics and merrymakers: Medieval women pilgrims. Stroud: Sutton Publishing. 2006
Hostetler, M. “'I wold thow wer closyd in an hows of ston': Re-imagining religious enclosure in the Book of Margery Kempe.” Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies 20 (2003): 71-94.
Howes. Laura L. “On the Birth of Margery Kempe’s Last Child.” Modern Philology 90 (1992): 220-225.
-----. "Romancing the City: Margery Kempe in Rome." Studies in Philology 111 (2014): 680-690.
Hsy, J. "Be more strange and bold": Kissing lepers and female same-sex desire in The Book of Margery Kempe.” Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal 5 (2010): 189-199.
Innes-Parker, C. A. "Learning by doing: teaching Margery Kempe in undergraduate courses." In D. Dyas, V. Edden, and R. Ellis (Eds.), Approaching Medieval English Anchoritic and Mystical Texts. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK; Rochester NY: D.S. Brewer, 2005. 206-208.
Jefferies, Diana; Horsfall, Debbie. "Forged by Fire: Margery Kempe's Account of Postnatal Psychosis." Literature and Medicine 32 (2014): 348-364.
Jenkins, Jacqueline, “Reading and The Book of Margery Kempe.” In Arnold and Lewis, A Companion to The Book of Margery Kempe. 113-28.
Kamerick, Kathleen. “Art and Moral Vision in Angela of Foligno and Margery Kempe,” Mystics Quarterly 21 (1995): 148-58.
Kang, J. "Lollard repression, affective piety and Margery Kempe." Feminist Studies in English Literature 11 (2003): 43-72.
Kelliher. H. "The Rediscovery of Margery Kempe: A Footnote." The British Library Journal 23 (1997): 259-63.
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn. "Urban Devotion and Female Preaching: Constraint and Encouragement in England and Abroad." In Books Under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. 247-59.
Killian, Ann. "Listening for Lyric Voice in Sermon Voices and The Book of Margery Kempe." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 41 (2019): 211-237.
Kirtley, S. “Divine dialogues: Margery Kempe's conversations with Christ.” Exit 9: The Rutgers Journal of Comparative Literature 7 (2005): 41-53.
Kiser, Lisa J. “Margery Kempe and the animalization of Christ: animal cruelty in late medieval England.” Studies in Philology 106 (2009): 299-315.
Klan, N. “Affective piety and Pentecostal evangelism: Experimental theology and The Book of Margery Kempe.” Religion & Literature 42 (2010): 163-84.
Knowles, David. “Margery Kempe and Dame Julian.” In The English Mystical Tradition. London: Burns and Oates, 1927; rept. 1961. 128-49.
Kolentsis, A. “Telling the grace that she felt: Linguistic strategies in The Book of Margery Kempe.” Exemplaria 20 (2008): 225-43.
Kowalczewska, Alicja. "Margery Kempe: The Paradox of the Religious Liberating the Social?" Magistra 24 (2018): 91-108.
Krug, Rebecca. “Margery Kempe.” In The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100-1500. Ed. Larry Scanlon. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
-----. “Jesus’ Voice: Dialogue and Late-Medieval Readers.” In Form and Reform: Reading across the Fifteenth Century. Ed. Shannon Gayk and Kathleen Tonry. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2011. 110-32.
-----. Margery Kempe and the Lonely Reader. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017.
Ladd, R. A. “Margery Kempe and her mercantile mysticism.” Fifteenth-Century Studies 26 (2001):121-41.
Lawton, David. “Voice, Authority and Blasphemy in The Book of Margery Kempe.” In Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Ed. Sandra McEntire. New York: Garland, 1992. 93-115.
LeSaux, F. “‘Hir Not Lettryd’: Margery Kempe and Writing.” In Writing and Culture. Ed. Balz Engler. Tubingen: G. Narr, 1992. 53-8.
Lewis, Katherine J. “Margery Kempe and Saint Making in Later Medieval England.” In Arnold and Lewis, A Companion to the Book of Margery Kempe. 195-216.
Leyser, H. "Women and the word of God", In Women and Religion in Medieval England. Ed. D. Wood. Oxford: Oxbow, 2003. 32–45.
Lindstedt, Samira. "Questioning the ‘Book of Life’ as Evidence for the ‘Illiteracy’ of Margery Kempe." Notes and Queries 65 (2018): 302-303.
Lipton, Emma. “The Marriage of Love and Sex: Margery Kempe and Bourgeois Lay Identity.” In Affections of the Mind: The Politics of Sacramental Marriage in Late Medieval Literature. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. 129-60.
Livingston, Sally A. Marriage, Property, and Women's Narratives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 63-74.
Lochrie, Karma. “The Book of Margery Kempe: The Marginal Woman’s Quest for Literary Authority.” Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 16 (1986): 33– 55.
-----. Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
Long, J. “Mysticism and Hysteria: The Histories of Margery Kempe and Anna O.” In Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature, ed. Ruth Evans and Leslie Johnson. London: Routledge, 1994, 88-111.
Manter, L. “The savior of her desire: Margery Kempe's passionate gaze.” Exemplaria 13 (2001): 39-66.
Mazzoni, C. “Of stockfish and stew: feasting and fasting in The Book Margery Kempe.” Food & Foodways: History & Culture of Human Nourishment 10 (2002): 171- 82.
McAvoy, Liz Herbert. “'Aftyr hyr owyn tunge': Body, voice and authority in The Book of Margery Kempe.” Women's Writing 9 (2002): 159-76.
-----. Authority and the Female Body in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, Woodbridge, UK and Rochester, NY: Boydell, 2004.
-----. “Virgin, Mother, Whore: The Sexual Spirituality of Margery Kempe.” In Intersections of Sexuality and the Divine in Medieval Culture: The Word Made Flesh. Ed. S. M. Chewning. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2005. 121-38.
-----. “”[A}n awngel al clothyd in white’: Rereading the Book of Life and The Book of Margery Kempe.” In Women and Experience in Later Medieval Writing: Reading the Book of Life. Ed. Anneke Mulder-Bakker and Liz Herbert Mcvoy. New York: Palgrave Macmilllan, 103-22.
McEntire, Sandra J. “The Doctrine of Compunction from Bede to Margery Kempe.” In The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England, Vol. 4. Ed. Marion Glasscoe. Woodbridge, Suffolk, D. S. Brewer, 1987, 77-90.
-----. Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. New York: Garland, 1992.
-----. “The Journey into Selfhood: Margery Kempe and Feminine Spirituality.” In McIntire, Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. 51-72.
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