As they dig foundations and stack stones, the women take on everyone from Ovid to the guy who wrote the proverb, “God made women to speak, weep, and sew.” Over the past 600 years, a few of de Pizan’s ...

And Kempe was not the only woman who experienced them. God’s grace: a detail from a 15th-century tapestry showing a spiritual quest Credit: Universal History Archive The Book of Margery Kempe ...

That unassuming manuscript turned out to be the only surviving copy of The Book of Margery Kempe, a medieval text chronicling the adventures of a female Christian mystic. Previously known only through ...

For two acts, John E. Wulp's The Saintliness of Margery Kempe is a fairly amusing comedy. It relates the adventures of a fourteenth-century English housewife who, smitten with a sense of her high ...

[T]his book will become an important contribution to our understanding ... His readings of Piers Plowman and Margery Kempe will be of great interest, particularly his discussion of literary adoptions ...

Cole's book does a very good job of detailing the subtleties of Wyclif's own beliefs, those of his followers, and of the 'cultural conversation' that those beliefs spawned in writers from Chaucer and ...