Margery Kempe

You’re Mine, Margery: The Utilization of Instrumentality, Ownership, and Unhealthy Relationships in The Book of Margery Kempe The nature of a patriarchal society is depicted by a system or social order where women are subordinated and considered inferior beings. The women in such a society have no power to make their personal choices and their actions pertaining different situations are dictated by men. Women are considered as second-class citizens with no voice or influence in decision-making…

This study started from engaging two equally assertive women in dialogue: Margery Kempe from six centuries ago, and Judith Butler of our own time. Butler describes how Discourse, through performativity, works its trick: gender norms are set up, nonconformity disciplined and the non-conformer reduced to silence or destroyed. Margery Kempe, with body and words, shows how performativity may backfire, undergirded by alternative discourses and producing non-conforming performances. Indeed,…

patriarchal society, there have been a select number of women who have resisted these societal confines and pushed to break the genders roles of the time. Of these women is Margery Kempe, a highly controversial figure in the 1400’s from late medieval England. Also considered the first autobiography, “The Book of Margery Kempe”…

occupations, relationship status or ones sexual desires but often it does not. All people who make a choice to commit to something make similar sacrifices. This is seen in the two characters, Margery Kempe and Lanval, as described in the Book of Margery by Margery Kempe and Lanval by Marie de France. Margery is a wife and mother turned Christian mystic. Lanval is an honorable Knight who shares a secret love with a mysterious…

There has always been an argument on how the way you dress is typically the way that you usually feel or even the way you want other people to perceive you. Margery Kempe had an anomalous, yet complicated technique of explaining, way of showing to the audience what she was feeling or what she was trying to convey to the reader. Margery Kempe created this biography that has it’s own way of making the audience understand the way she went throughout her life. Brought to my attention when trying to…

her own wickedness, she might but sorrow and weep and ever pray for mercy and forgiveness…” – The Book of Margery Kempe In the European Middle Ages, weeping such as this one from the Book of Margery Kempe became a significant feature of religious expression. Violent and uncontrollable episodes of weeping characterised the spiritual lives of mystic and spiritual figures such as Margery Kempe, who was known for crying and praying for hours at a time. Weeping was a symbolic, physical performance…

Postpartum Psychosis in The Book of Margery Kempe Studies have found that postpartum psychosis appears in about one in every five hundred childbearing women a few weeks after they deliver. Postpartum psychosis is much more sever and rare than postpartum depression, someone with this illness may develop hallucinations, delusional beliefs, manic episodes, paranoia, obscured thinking, and have a dramatic change of behavior. In Margery Kempe’s book, The Book of Margery Kempe, the use of…

Both Margery Kempe in The Book of Margery Kempe and Alison in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue represent unconventional medieval woman posed as a rebellious contrast to the traditional idea of femininity in medieval society. While their methods of achieving this title of rebellion share similarities conceptually, the way that they put these ideas into action are strikingly different. What brings these two characters together however, is that they are able to gain individual independence and societal…

currently. There are three works that really stand out on defining the aspects of marriage in these older times. In Marie de France 's, “Yonec,” marriage is portrayed as a way for a man to gain his own desires. On the other hand, Margery Kempe 's, “The Book of Margery Kempe,” shows a woman being unhappy in her marriage and how people dislike her due to her viewpoints. Finally, Willaim Hogarth 's, “Marriage a la Mode,” uses engravings to showcase the perils of an arranged marriage. Through these…

She is often criticized for portraying herself to be without flaws. Margery Kempe believed that she should see herself as God sees her, devoted and honest. The same idea is expressed throughout Christanity in the instance of being born again. Margery Kempe shows an example of being righteous and holy, as described in (Ephesians 4:24) “ and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and…