![]() ![]() It describes in lively detail Kempe’s spiritual revelations, affective meditations, and conversations with the divine her pilgrimages in England, Europe, and the Holy Lands her controversial expressions of piety and her tribulations and trials, including her examinations for heresy. The Book of Margery Kempe, which was dictated at least in part by Kempe, who may have been illiterate or had only limited literacy, gives a detailed account of Kempe’s life experiences from the time of her first pregnancy when she was around twenty years old, until she was in her mid-sixties. Kempe was born in Norfolk in c. 1373, the daughter of a relatively prosperous and distinguished East Anglian merchant who had served as mayor and member of Parliament for the borough of Bishop’s Lynn, now King’s Lynn. Margery Kempe was a late medieval English visionary and is, arguably, the author of the first autobiography known to have been written in the English language. ![]()
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