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Margery Kempe's Spiritual Medicine
By Laura Kalas
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Description
Focusing on the interactions of medicine, mysticism and reproduction as a feminist project, the author explores the ontology of female flesh; the productive use of pain, suffering and sickness; and the ethics of a maternal theology based on the melancholic and surrogate activities that underlie Kempe's experience. Structured broadly via a traverse through the life course, the book shows how Kempe's response to suffering is illuminated by the medieval medical discourse by which she is contemporaneously read, and by which she engineers her own construction and understanding of self. It also explores Kempe's persistent attendance to her mystical body and refusal to compromise her instinct to authentically show how she feels.
LAURA KALAS is a Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Swansea University.
Product details
- Edition:
- illustrated
- Number of Pages:
- 270
- Release Date:
- 2020-02-27
- Publication Date:
- 2020-03-20
- Publisher:
- D.S.Brewer
- Languages:
- Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 1843845547
- ISBN13:
- 9781843845546
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
- [email protected]
- Weight:
- 573 g
- Height:
- 161 cm
- Width:
- 240 cm
- Thickness:
- 19 cm
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