Margery Kempe

Biographie

Bibliographie

1. The Book of Margery Kempe

   Titres:
   Date:	Fin des années 1430
   Commanditaire:
   Dédicataire:
   Forme:	Prose
   Langue:	Anglais
   Contenu:	Récit se voulant autobiographique d'une femme
   Incipit:	Here begynnyth a schort tretys and a comfortabyl for synful wrecchys, wherin thei may have gret solas and comfort to hem and undyrstondyn the hy and unspecabyl mercy of ower sovereyn Savyowr Cryst Jhesu, whos name be worschepd and magnyfyed wythowten ende, that now in ower days to us unworthy deyneth to exercysen hys nobeley and hys goodnesse...
   Explicit:	... And for alle tho that feithyn and trustyn er schul feithyn and trustyn in my prayerys into the worldys ende, sweche grace as thei desiryn, gostly er bodily, to the profite of her sowlys, I pray the, Lord, grawnt hem for the multitude of thi mercy. Amen." Jhesu mercy quod Salthows.

   Manuscrit
   1. London, British Library, Additional, 61823
   Éditions modernes
   • The Book of Margery Kempe: The Text from the Unique MS. Owned by Colonel W. Butler-Bowdon. Vol. I. Edited with Introduction and Glossary by Prof. Sanford Brown Meech with Prefatory Note by Hope Emily Allen and Notes and Appendices by Sanford Brown Meech and Hope Emily Allen, London, Milford et Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 212), 1940, lxviii + 441 p.
   • Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe, éd. W. Butler-Bowon, New York, Devin-Adair, 1944.
   • Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe, Edited by Lynn Staley, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications (TEAMS Middle English Texts), 1996.
   • Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe, A New Translation, Contexts and Criticism. Translation and Edition by Lynn Staley, New York, Norton, 2001, xx + 305 p.
   • The Book of Margery Kempe Edited by Barry Windeatt, Woodbridge, Brewer, 2004, xvii + 474 p.
   Traductions modernes
   • en anglais:
     • The Book of Margery Kempe 1436: A Modern Version, trad. W. Butler-Bowdon, London, Cape, 1936. — Réimpr.: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1956.
     • Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe, trad. B. A. Windeatt, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1985.
     • The Autobiography of the Madwoman of God: The Book of Margery Kempe. A New Translation by Tony D. Triggs, Ligouri, Triumph Books, 1995.
     • The Book of Margery Kempe, Translated and with an Introduction by John Skinner, New York, Doubleday, 1998.
     • Staley 2001 (voir sous Éditions modernes)
     • The Book of Margery Kempe: An Abridged Translation. Translated from the Middle English with Introduction, Notes and Interpretive Essay by Liz Herbert McAvoy, Woodbridge et Rochester, Brewer (Library of Medieval Women, 17), 2003, 153 p.
   • en français:
     • Margery Kempe, Le livre: une mystique anglaise au temps de l'hérésie lollarde. Traduit de l'anglais par Daniel Vidal, [Sainte-Agnès], Millon (Atopia, 6), 1987, 413 p.
     • Le livre de Margery Kempe: une aventurière de la foi au Moyen Âge. Traduction de l'anglais par Louise Magdinier, Paris, Cerf (Textes), 1989, x + 373 p.
   Études
   • Arnold, John H., et Katherine J. Lewis, éd., A Companion to "The Book of Margery Kempe", Cambridge, Brewer, 2004, vi + 246 p.
   • Atkinson, Clarissa W., Mystic and Pilgrim: The Book and the World of Margery Kempe, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1983, 241 p.
   • Bosse, R. B., « Margery Kempe's tarnished reputation: a reassessment », Fourteenth-Century Mystics Newsletter, 5, 1979, p. 9-19.
   • Cholmeley, Katharine, Margery Kempe: Genius and Mystic, New York, Longmans, Green and Co., 1947.
   • Collis, Louise, Memoirs of a Medieval Woman: The Life and Times of Margery Kempe, New York, Crowell, 1964.
   • Dinshaw, Carolyn, Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern, Durham, Duke University Press, 1999, xii + 345 p.
   • Gallyon, Margaret, Margery Kempe of Lynn and Medieval England, Cambridge, Lutterworth Press, 2004.
   • Glenn, Cheryl, « Popular literacy in the Middle Ages: The Book of Margery Kempe », Popular Literacy: Studies in Cultural Practices and Poetics, éd. John Trimbur, Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001, p. 56-73.
   • Goodman, Anthony E., Margery Kempe and Her World, Old Tappin, Longman, 2004.
   • Herbert McAvoy, Liz, Authority and the Female Body in the Writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, Woodbridge et Rochester, Boydell Press (Studies in Medieval Mysticism, 5), 2004, ix + 276 p.
   • Hirsh, John C., « Author and scribe in The Book of Margery Kempe », Medium Aevum, 44, 1975, p. 145-150.
   • Hirsh, John C., The Revelations of Margery Kempe: Paramystical Practices in Late Medieval England, Leiden et New York, Brill (Medieval and Renaissance Authors, 10), 1989, x + 127 p.
   • Jeay, Madeleine, « Une dramaturgie mystique. La mise en scène des manifestations corporelles de la grâce », Memini. Travaux et documents, 8, 2004, p. 5-28.
   • Lenz Harvey, Nancy, « Margery Kempe: writer as creature », Philological Quarterly, 71, 1992, p. 173-184.
   • Leyser, H., « Women and the word of God », Women and Religion in Medieval England, éd. D. Wood, Oxford, Oxbow, 2003, p. 32-45.
   • Lochrie, Karma, « The Book of Margery Kempe: the marginal woman's quest for literary authority », Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 16, 1986, p. 33–55.
   • Lochrie, Karma, Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press (New Cultural Studies), 1991, viii + 253 p.
   • McEntire, Sandra J., éd., Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays, New York, Garland, 1992.
   • Mitchell, Marea, « Uncanny dialogues: "The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn" and The Book of Margery Kempe », Maistresse of my Wit: Medieval Women, Modern Scholars, éd. Louise D'Arcens et Juanita Feros Ruys, Turnhout, Brepols (Making the Middle Ages, 7), 2004, p. 247-266.
   • Neuburger, Verena E., Margery Kempe: A Study in Early English Feminism, Bern, Lang (European University Studies. Series 14, Anglo-Saxon Language and Literature, 278), 1994, 219 p.
   • Partner, Nancy F., « Reading The Book of Margery Kempe », Exemplaria, 3, 1991, p. 29-66.
   • Partner, Nancy, « "And most of all for inordinate love": desire and denial in The Book of Margery Kempe », Thought, 64, 1989, p. 250-267.
   • Staley Johnson, Lynn, « The trope of the scribe and the question of literary authority in the works of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe », Speculum, 66, 1991, p. 820-838.
   • Staley, Lynn, Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions, University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994, xiii + 224 p.
   • Stargardt, Ute, « The Beguines of Belgium, the Dominican Nuns of Germany, and Margery Kempe », The Popular Literature of Medieval England, éd. Thomas J. Heffernan, Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 1985, p. 277-313.
   • Stone, Robert Karl, Middle English Prose Style: Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich, The Hague, Mouton (Studies in English Literature, 36), 1970, 220 p.
   • Swanson, R., « Will the real Margery Kempe please stand up! », Women and Religion in Medieval England, éd. D. Wood, Oxford, Oxbow, 2003, p. 141-165.
   • Voaden, Rosalynn, God's Word, Women's Voices: The Discernment of Spirits in the Writing of Late-Medieval Women Visionaries, York, York Medieval Press, 1999, xi + 204 p.
   • Voaden, Rosalynn, « Beholding men's members: the sexualizing of transgression in the Book of Margery Kempe », Medieval Theology and the Natural Body, éd. Peter Biller et A. J. Minnis, Rochester, York Medieval Press (York Studies in Medieval Theology, 1), 1997, p. 175-190.
   • Warren, Martin L., Asceticism in the Christian Transformation of Self in Margery Kempe, William Thorpe, and John Rogers, Lewiston et Queenston, Lampeter et Edwin Mellen Press (Studies in Religion and Society, 60), 2003, 172 p.
   • Watt, Diane, Secretaries of God: Women Prophets in Late Medieval and Early Modern England, Cambridge, Brewer, 1997, p. 15-59.
   • Watt, Diane, « Critics, communities, compassionate criticism: learning from The Book of Margery Kempe », Maistresse of my Wit: Medieval Women, Modern Scholars, éd. Louise D'Arcens et Juanita Feros Ruys, Turnhout, Brepols (Making the Middle Ages, 7), 2004, p. 191-210.
   • Yoshikawa, Naoë Kukita, Margery Kempe's Meditations: The Context of Medieval Devotional Literature, Liturgy and Iconography, Cardiff, University of Wales Press (Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages), 2007, xi + 193 p.
     CR: Cheryl Taylor, dans Parergon, 24:2, 2007, p. 226-228. * [Muse]

Rédaction: Laurent Brun
Dernière mise à jour: 16 novembre 2008