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Margery Kempe`s Spiritual Medicine: Suffering, Transformation and the Life-Course

Name: Margery Kempe`s Spiritual Medicine: Suffering, Transformation and the Life-Course
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ISBN: 9781843845546

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Margery Kempe's various illnesses, mental, spiritual and physical, are a recurring theme in her Book. This volume, the first full-length interdisciplinary study from a medical humanities perspective, offers a medicalized reading of Kempe's spirituality in the context of the ubiquitous medieval notion of Christ the Physician, and thus a new way of interpreting the Book itself: as a narrative of Kempe's own engagement with the medical paradigms of which she has previously been a passive subject.

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Year:

2020

Publisher:

Boydell and Brewer

Language:

English

Pages:

272

ISBN 13:

9781843845546