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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.
-----. The Book of Margery Kempe. Ed. Joel Fredell. Online manuscript facsimile, diplomatic
edition, reader’s edition. 2015-2025. https://english.selu.edu/humanitiesonline/kempe/
Translations The Book of Margery Kempe 1436: A Modern Version. Trans. W. Butler-Bowdon,
London, Cape, 1936; rept. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956. “Excerpts from The Book of Margery Kempe.” Trans. Eric College. In The Medieval Mystics of
England. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1961. 283-304. [selections] 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. The Mirror of Love: Daily Readings with Margery Kempe
Le livre de Margery Kempe: une aventurière de la foi au Moyen Âge. (French) Trans. Louise Magdinier. Paris: Cerf, 1989.
“Margery Kempe: The Book of Margery Kempe.” Trans. Alexandra Barratt. In Women’s Writings in Middle English, ed. Alexandra Barratt. London: Longman, 1992. 177-204. [selections]
The Autobiography of the Madwoman of God: The Book of Margery Kempe. A New Translation. Trans. Tony D. Triggs. Ligouri: Triumph Books, 1995.
“Margery Kempe.” Trans. Monica Furlong. In Visions and Longings Medieval Women Mystics. London: Mowbray, 1996. 167-85. [selections]
“Margery Kempe: I ask God’s Mercy for Everyone.” Trans. Shawn Madigan. In Mystics, Visionaries and Prophets: A Historical Anthology of Women’s Spiritual Writings. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998. 227-46. [selections]
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.
“Margery Kempe.” Trans. Elizabeth Spearing. In Medieval Writings on Female Spirituality. New York: Penguin Books, 2002. 226-54. [selections]
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.
Libro de Margery Kempe: La mujer que se reinventó a sí misma (Spanish). Trans. Salustiano Moreta Velayos. València: Universitat de València, 2015.
The Book of Margery Kempe Illustrated. Bexhill On Sea, UK: Delphi Publishing, 2024.
The Book of Margery Kempe. Translated by Luke Penkett. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2025.
Performances and Retellings
Wulp, John. The Saintliness of Margery Kempe: A Comedy. Hart Stenographic Bureau, 1959.
Figes, Eva. The True Tale of Margery Kempe. London: BBC Radio 2, 1985.
Glück, Robert. Margery Kempe. London: Serpent’s Tale, 1994.
Howard, Roger. “Margery Kempe.” In The Tragedy of Mao in the Lin Piao Period and Other Plays. Colchester: Theatre Action Press, 1989. 41-56.
Pantaleo, Jack. Mother Julian and the Gentle Vampire. Roseville, CA: Dry Bones Press, 1999, 2000.
Bagshaw, Dana. Cell Talk: A Duologue between Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe. Peterborough: Radius, 2002.
Inglis, Brian [composer]. The Song of Margery Kempe: an opera for solo female voice. Composer’s Edition, 2008.
Barnhouse, R. The book of the maidservant. New York: Random House, 2009.
Schreck, Heidi. Creature. London and New York: Samuel French, 2011.
Engel, Rebecca A. Inventing Margery Kempe. 2017. Kindle only.
Law, Sarah. Ink’s Wish: Poems for Margery Kempe. Amethyst Press, 2017.
MacKenzie, Victoria. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.
Piroyansky, Danna. Missus Jesus: A Novel. Danna Piroyansky, 2023.
Kempe, Margery [lyricist] and Paul Mealor [composer]. The Light of Paradise: Fourteen devotions of Margery Kempe. With the Zürich Chamber Singers, Dir. Christian Erny. Sonic.art saxophone quartet. Hong Kong: Naxos Digital Services, 2024; Hamburg: Berlin Classics, 2024.
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, Prudence. The Concept of Woman: The Early Humanist Reformation, 1250–1500. Cambridge, Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 2002. 461-76.
Allen, V. “As the crow flies: Roads and pilgrimage.” Essays in Medieval Studies 25(2009): 27-38.
Amsler, Mark. “Narrating and Focalizing The Book of Margery Kempe.” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 125 (2024): 68-114.
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, Chris. “Margery Kempe Weeping Over Jesus’ Body and Praying His Heart.” In Patron Saints for Postmoderns: Ten from the Past Who Speak to Our Future. Westmont, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2009. 74-91.
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.
Ashley, K. “Historicizing Margery: The Book of Margery Kempe as Social Text.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 28 (1998): 371-89.
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.
Bailey, Anne E. “The Problematic Pilgrim: Rethinking Margery’s Pilgrim Identity in The Book of Margery Kempe” Chaucer Review 55 (2020): 171-96.
Bale, Anthony. "Richard Salthouse of Norwich and the Scribe of The Book of Margery Kempe." Chaucer Review 52 (2017): 173-187.
Bale, Anthony, and Daniela Giosuè. “A Woman’s Network in Fifteenth-Century Rome: Margery Kempe encounters ‘Margaret Florentyne’.” In Kalas and Varnam, Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021. 185-204.
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.
Barr, Jessica, “Knowledge is Power: Negotiating Authority in The Book of Margery Kempe.” In Willing to Know God: Dreamers and visionaries in the later Middle Ages. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010. 208-31.
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.
Barratt, Alexandra. “Spiritual Virgin to Virgin Mother.” Parergon 17:1 (1999): 9-44.
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.
Bavin, Lindsey and Rebecca Rees. Margery Kempe of Lynn. Peterborough: Upfront Publishing, 2019.
Beaulieu, Katharine. "Her Body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost: Why Margery Kempe is a Better ‘Virgin.’" Magistra 23 (2017): 90-96.
Beckwith, Sarah. “A Very Material Mysticism: The Medieval Mysticism of Margery Kempe.” In Medieval Literature: Criticism, Ideology and History. Ed. David Aers. New York: St Martin’s Press, 1986. 34-57. Reprinted in Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages. Ed. Jane Chance. Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 1996. 195-215.
Beckwith, Sarah. “Problems of Authority in Late Medieval English Mysticism: Agency and Authority in The Book of Margery Kempe.” Exemplaria 4 (1992): 171-199.
Bedford, Nancy Elizabeth. “Sororidad Y Cristología.” Carthaginensia 39.75 (2023): 69-91.Beer, Anna R. “Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe.” In Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature. New York: Oneworld Publications, 2022.
Benedict, K. M. Empowering collaborations: Writing partnerships between religious women and scribes in the Middle Ages. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Benedictine of Stanbrook, A. “Margery Kempe and the Holy Eucharist.” Downside Review 56 (1938): 468-92.
Bennett, H. S., Six Medieval Men and Women, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1955
Bernal, Lindsay. “Margery Kempe And Camden Pastoral.” The Hopkins Review 18.2 (2025): 128–130.
Bhattacharji, Santha. "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.
Bhattacharji, Santha. “Problems of Authority in Late Medieval English Mysticism: Agency and Authority in The Book of Margery Kempe. ” Exemplaria 4 (1992): 171-200.
Bhattacharji, Santha. "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.
Bhattacharji, Santha. God Is An Earthquake: The Spirituality of Margery Kempe, London: Darton, Longman, and Todd, 1997.
Bhattacharji, Santha. “Tears and Screaming: Weeping in the Spirituality of Margery Kempe.” In Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination. Ed. Kimberley Christine Patton and John Stratton Hawley. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 229-41.
Bodden, M.-C. Language as the site of revolt in Medieval and Early Modern England: Speaking as a woman. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.Bodden, M.-C. "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.
Bodden, M.-C. “Problems of Authority in Late Medieval English Mysticism: Agency and Authority in The Book of Margery Kempe.” Exemplaria 4 (1992): 171-200.
Bodden, M.-C. "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.
Boklund-Lagopoulos, Karin. “Visionary Discourse: Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe,” Yearbook of English Studies (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) 3 (1991-92): 27-43.
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.
Boyd, Beverly. “Wyclif, Joan of Arc, and Margery Kempe.” Mystics Quarterly 12 (1986): 112-18.
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.
Bremner, Eluned. “Margery Kempe and the Critics: Disempowerment and Deconstruction.” In McEntire, Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. 117-35.
Brentano, Robert. “Catherine of Siena, Margery Kempe, and a caterva virginum.” In Bishops, Saints, and Historians: Studies in the Ecclesiastical History of Medieval Britain and Italy. Ed. William L. North. London: Routledge, 2023. 45-55.
Bugyis. Katie, “Handling the Book of Margery Kempe: the corrective touches of the red ink annotator.” In New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices. Ed. Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, John Thompson, and Sarah Baechle. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame press, 2014. 138-58.
Burns, George. “Margery Kempe Revisited.” Month 171 (1938): 238-44.
Call, J. “The song of Margery Kempe.” Christianity & Literature 50 (2001): 439.
Burroughs, Catherine B. and J. Ellen Gainor, eds. “Five Medieval Women: Margery Kempe.” In The Routledge Anthology of Women’s Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism. London: Routledge, 2024. 21-23.
Butcher, Andrew, “Reading the Book of Margery Kempe.” In Imitating Art: Essays in Biography. Ed. David Ellis. Boulder, CO: Pluto Press, 1993. 189-212.
Call, J. “The song of Margery Kempe.” Christianity & Literature 50 (2001): 439.
Calway, Gareth. The Book of Margery Kempe of Lynn: The First Autobiography in English. Oulton: Poppyland Publishing, 2020.
Campbell, M.S. “‘All My Children, Spiritual and Bodily’: Love Transformed in The Book of Margery Kempe.” The Journal of the Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts 1 (1995): 59-69.
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 p>Castagna, Valentina. 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.
Claridge, Gordon, Ruth Pryor, and Gwen Watkins. “Medieval Madness: Margery Kempe, Thomas Hoccleve.” In Sounds From the Bell Jar: Ten Psychotic Authors. New York: MacMillan, 1990. 49-70.
Cleve, Gunnel. "Semantic Dimensions in Margery Kempe: 'Whyght Clothys'." Mystics Quarterly 12, no. 4 (Dec. 1986): 162-70.
Cleve, Gunnel. “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.
Coffman, G., “The Book of Margery Kempe.” Speculum 17 (1942): 138-42.
Cole, Andrew. ‘Margery Kempe’s Lollard Shame.’ In Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer. Cambridge: CUP, 2010. 155-82.
Coleman, T.W., “Margery Kempe.” In English Mystics of the Fourteenth Century. London: Epworth Press, 1938. 153-76.
Colledge, Edmund. “Margery Kempe.” In Pre-Reformation Spirituality, ed. James Walsh. New York: Fordham University Press, 1965. 210-23.
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.
Cooper-Rompato, Christine F. “’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.
Cooper-Rompato, Christine F. "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.
Craun, Edwin D. “Fame and Pastoral Constraints on Rebuking Sinners: The Book of Margery Kempe.” In Fama: The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe. Ed. Thelma Fenster and Daniel Lord Smail. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2003. 187-209.
Craymer, Suzanne. “Margery Kempe’s Imitation of Mary Magdalene and the Digby Plays.” Mystics Quarterly 19 (1993): 173-81.
Critten, Rory G. Author, Scribe, and Book in Late Medieval English Literature. Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2018.
Crocker, Holly. “Medieval Affect, The Book of Margery Kempe, and Medical Treatments of the Embodied Soul.” In Literature and Medicine. Ed. Anna Magdalena Elsner and Monika Pietrzak-Franger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 39-52.
Crofton, Melissa. “From medieval mystic to early modern anchoress: rewriting The Book of Margery Kempe.” Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History 16 (2013): 101-24.
Cross, R.C. “Oral Life Written Text: The Genesis of The Book of Margery Kempe.” Yearbook of English Studies 22 (1992): 226-47.
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.
D’Arcens, Louise and Juanita Feros Ruys, eds. Maistresse of My Wit: Medieval Women, Modern Scholars. Turnhout: Brepols, 2004.
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.
Despres, Denise. “Franciscan Spirituality: Margery Kempe and Visual Meditation.” Mystics Quarterly 11 (1985): 12-18.
Dickens, Andrea Janelle. “Contemplative Pilgrim: Margery Kempe.” In The Female Mystic: Great Women Thinkers of the Middle Ages. London and New York: Tauris, 2009. 163-77.
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.
Dickman, Susan. “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.
Dickman, Susan. “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.
Dillon, Janet. “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.
Dillon, Janet. “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.
Dinshaw, Carolyn. "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.
Dinshaw, Carolyn. How soon is now?: Medieval texts, amateur readers, and the queerness of time. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. 105-128.
Dixon, Laurinda. “The Curse of Chastity.” In Matrons and Marginal Women in Late Medieval Society. Ed. Robert Edwards and Vicky Ziegler. Cambridge: Boydell Press, 1995. 49-74.
Donavin, Georgiana, “Margery Kempe and the Virgin Birth of her Book.” In Scribit Mater: Mary and the Language Arts in the Literature of Medieval England. Washington, Catholic University of America Press, 2012. 250-86.
Donnelly, C. “Menopausal life as imitation of art: Margery Kempe and the lack of sorority.” Women's Writing 12 (2005): 419-32.
Downes, Stephanie and Stephanie Trigg. “Ugly Book Feelings: Materiality and Negative Affect in Late Medieval Women’s Writing.” Emotions: History, Culture, Society 7.1 (2023): 9–29.
Drabble, Margaret. “Margery Kempe.” In The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Ed. Dinah Birch. 7th ed., New York: OUP, 2000. 552.
Draper, Jenny. Mavericks: Life Stories and Lessons of History’s Most Extraordinary Misfits. London: Watkins Media Limited, 2025. Audiobook.
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.
Ellis, Deborah. “Margery Kempe and King’s Lynn.” In Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Ed. Sandra McEntire, 139-64. New York: Garland, 1992.
Ellis, Deborah. “The Merchant’s Wife’s Tale: Language, Sex, and Commerce in Margery Kempe and in Chaucer.” Exemplaria 2 (1990): 595-626.
Ellis, Roger. “Margery Kempe’s Scribe and the Miraculous Books.” In Langland, The Mystics, and Medieval English Religious Tradition. Essays in Honour of S. S. Hussey. Ed. Helen Phillips. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1990. 161-75.
Eriksen, Roy. “Sacred Art and the Artful Conversion of Margery Kempe.” Nordlit: Arbeidstidsskrift i litteratur 6 (1999): 15-29.
Erler, Mary, “Margery Kempe’s White Clothes,” Medium Aevum 62 (1993): 78-83.
Erskine, John. "Margery Kempe and Her Models: The Role of the Authorial Voice." Mystics Quarterly 15 (1989): 75-85.
Erwin, Rebecca Schoff, “Early Editing of Margery Kempe in Manuscript and Print,” Journal of the Early Book Society 9 (2006): 75-94.
Evans, Ruth. “The Book of Margery Kempe: Autobiography in the Third Person.” In Kalas and Varnam, Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe. 83-100.
Evans, Shannon K. “All the Best Prophets were Mentally Ill;” “How to Become a Virgin Again.” The Mystics Would like a Word: Six Women Who Met God and Found a Spirituality for Today. Ed. Shannon K. Evans. New York: Convergent, 2024. 35-64.
Fanous, Samuel. “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.
Farley, Mary Hardman. ‘Her own creatur: religion, feminist criticism, and the functional eccentricity of Margery Kempe.’ Exemplaria 11 (1999): 1-21.
Fienberg, Nona. “Thematics of Value in The Book of Margery Kempe.” Modern Philology 87 (1989): 132-141.
Filios, Denise K. “Heritagizing Margery Kempe on the Camino Inglés.” Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies (2025): 1–28.
Finke, Laurie A., “Margery Kempe.” In Women’s Writing in English: Medieval England. Harlow: Longman, 1989. 176-87.
Fitch-Mayo, Rosalind. An Introduction to Margery Kempe. St Margaret’s Church, King’s Lynn, 2011.
Fletcher, Chris. “Margery Kempe.” In 1000 Years of English Literature. London: British Library, 2003. 32-33.
Fonzo, Kimberly. “The Artless Devil in The Book of Margery Kempe.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 54.2 (2024): 245–69.
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.
Fraser, Anthony. The Spiritual Journey of Margery Kempe (ca. 1373-1438) . Historia Magna, 2024.
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Theses/Dissertations
Amsel, S. A. (2011). Formation of medieval female subject consciousness: A study of Italian and English mystics, Christine de Pizan, Boccaccio, and Chaucer.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 868328420).
Anteau, Ashley A., et al. Expressing the Inexpressible : Performance, Rhetoric, and Self-Making from Marguerite Porete to Margery Kempe. Bowling Green State University, 2024.
Arvay, S. M. (2008). Private passions: The contemplation of suffering in medieval affective devotions. Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 304463561).
Baule, C. A. (2000). Eating the book: Reading and the formation of the devout subject in late medieval England.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 304632303).
Benedict, K. M. (2001). Authorial alliances: Collaboration between religious women and scribes in the middle ages.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 304726639).
Bober, N. B. (2010). This creature, bride of Christ. Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 744523154).
Bollig, Tiara. Timely Obligations: Understanding Religious Responses to Sexual and Societal Trauma in the Book of Margery Kempe and “The Reeve’s Tale” . Eastern New Mexico University, 2023.
Brandolino, G. (2007). Voice lessons: Violence, voice, and interiority in Middle English religious narratives, 1300--1500.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 304853229).
Cole, C. T., Jr. (2007). Mysticism, contextualism, and community: A communitarian/pragmatic epistemology of mysticism. Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 304897735).
Cooper, C. F. (2004). Mirabile translatu: Translating women and the miraculous in the later middle ages.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 305209664).
Crofton, M. A. (2011). Textual reconstruction: The deployment of late medieval texts in early modern England.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 889959362).
Drzazgowski, Kyla Helena. Imagined Pilgrimage in Late Medieval England. University of British Columbia, 2024.
Drescher, E. (2008). Practicing church: Vernacular ecclesiologies in late medieval England.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 304590865).
Edwards, S. M. (2006). Beyond raptus: Pedagogies and fantasies of sexual violence in late-medieval England.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 304952816).
Firth, P. A. (2000). The female intrinsic: A study of the selfhood skills of four medieval englishwomen.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 304607953).
Handelman, C. B. (2003). Meditation and pilgrimage in late medieval england: In search of the historical Jesus.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 305341982).
Harper, E. V. K. (2009). Gifts and economic exchange in Middle English religious writing.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 304961060).
Hsy, J. H. (2007). Polyglot poetics: Merchants and literary production in London, 1300--1500.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 304837971).
Huber, E. R. (2008). "For Y am sorwe, and sorwe ys Y": Melancholy, despair, and pathology in middle english literature. Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 304511112).
Isola, Z. (2005). Consuming passion: Poetics of the Eucharist in late medieval England.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 305003778).
Jeffries, L. (2003). Writing the life of Margery: Generic identities, hagiographic conventions, and "the Book of Margery Kempe". Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 305243247).
Kinane, K. A. (2005). Sanctity deferred: The problem of imitation in early English saints' lives.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 305463938).
Klages, M. A. (2008). Rhetorics of pain and desire: The writings of the Middle English mystics.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 304446999).
Kuhn, W. (2000). Are mothers saints? Changes in the perception of motherhood in the later middle ages.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 304582938).
Ladd, R. A. (2000). Merchants, mercantile satire, and problems of estate in late medieval English literature.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 304635352).
Lane, J. C. (2003). Compassio: Participation in the passion and late medieval Jerusalem pilgrimage.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 305332736).
Lavinsky, David. "’Speke to me be thowt’: Affectivity, Incendium Amoris, and The Book of Margery Kempe." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 112 (2013): 340-364.
Leech, M. E. (2002). The rhetoric of the body: A study of body imagery and rhetorical structure in medieval literature.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 304809678).
Lettau, L. (2008).Conscious constructions of self: Dreams and visions in the middle ages.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 304627828).
Light, Ellis Amity. Fluxing Fellowship: Bodily Fluids and Forms of Community in Medieval Devotional Literature. Fordham Research Commons, 2023. https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30317196.
Manion, C. E. (2005). Writers in religious orders and their lay patrons in late medieval England.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 305401119).
Mattord, C. L. (2009). Lay writers and the politics of theology in medieval England from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 251407943).
McIntyre, R. A. S. (2008). Memory, place, and desire in late medieval British pilgrimage narratives.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 304646212).
Meyer, C. M. (2006). Producing the Middle English corpus: Confession and medieval bodies.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 304978632).
Miles, L. S. (2011). Mary's book: The annunciation in medieval England.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 922421225).
Mueller, C. L. (2007). Technologies of the late medieval self: Ineffability, distance, and subjectivity in the "book of Margery Kempe".Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 304849390).
Neufeld, C. M. (2002). Xanthippe's sisters: Orality and femininity in the later middle ages.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 305457899).
Njus, J. (2010). Performing the passion: A study on the nature of medieval acting.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 305212264).
Nolan, N. M. (2002). Strumpets, cuckolds, and 'ryth wikked' women: The politics of obscene gender comedy in Middle English literature.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 276396331).
Ong, L. L. (2001). Medieval autobiographical writing in "the Book of Margery Kempe".Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 304710877).
Quintanar, M. M. (2009). Authors and scribes: Negotiations of authority in fifteenth-century english texts.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 305033538).
Richmond, C. D. (2003). The practical preaching and vital voices of Margery Kempe, Margaret Fell, and Maria W. Stewart.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 305299998).
Schoff, R. L. (2004). Freedom from the press: Reading and writing in late medieval England.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 305188729).
Schroeder, B. I. (2003). Freedom through renegotiation: The marriage contracts of Margery Kempe.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 250189861).
Singer, S. A. (2006). Places of pilgrimage in premodern texts.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 305245699).
Smith,William E., I.,II. (2010). Spiritual marriage and visionary experience in Margery Kempe, "Eliza’s babes," and Anne Wentworth.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 759966774).
Smyth, L. M. (2001). Preaching with their hands: The role of the Carthusians in the transmission of women's texts in late medieval England.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 304727070).
Sumner, Rebecca Louise. The Spectacle of Femininity: Allegory and the Denial of Representation in the Book of Margery Kempe, Jane Eyre, and Wonderland. University of Rochester, 1991.
Sutherland, J. C. (2002). The inexpressible self: Biblical autobiography in the poetry of Walter of Wimborne and "the Book of Margery Kempe".Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 305449881).
Taves, J. (2008). The carnivalesque in "the book of margery kempe".Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 304364479).
Toscano, M. M. (2002). Making love with god: Sex and identity in two late-medieval women mystics. Mechthild of Magdeburg and Margery Kempe.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 305483663).
Tronti, Jennifer Emily. Tracing the Translucent Body: A Study of Tears as Mythopoesis in Myth, Literature, and Creative Practice. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2024.
Vann, C. (2003).The priestly author of "the Book of Margery Kempe": Scriptural, spiritual, and historical context.Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. (AAT 305326553).
>Wiegers, Ella. Call Me Holy for I Will Be Holy: Gendered Self-Fashioning, Abjection, and Authorship in the Lives of Medieval Female Lay Saints. Smith College, 2023.Zisa, Jessica Elizabeth. Loving Bodies, Willing Minds: Affect, Cognition, and Gender in Late Medieval English Literature. University of California at Santa Barbara, 2023.
