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
   • Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe, Edited by Sanford Brown Meech with Prefatory Note by Hope Emily Allen, Oxford, Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society), 1940.
   • 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.
   Traductions modernes
   • en anglais:
     • Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe, trad. B. A. Windeatt, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1985.
     • Staley 2001 (voir sous Éditions modernes)
   Études
   • 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.
   • 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.
   • McEntire, Sandra J., éd., Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays, New York, Garland, 1992.
   • 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.
   • Stone, Robert Karl, Middle English Prose Style: Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich, The Hague, Mouton, 1970.
   • 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.

Rédaction: Laurent Brun
Dernière mise à jour: 22 janvier 2008