Holy matter making holy meaning: fashioning memory, community and dissimilar similitude in middle Dutch sister-books and The Book of Margery Kempe
The Middle Dutch sister-books and The Book of Margery Kempe are fifteenth-century vernacular texts by women chronicling their female subjects’ conversion and arduous attempts at a holy life. They share an (auto)hagiographic enterprise and formal and thematic features, including a display...
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Western Michigan University Press
2023
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