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Margery Kempe`s Spiritual Medicine: Suffering, Transformation and the Life-Course

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Margery Kempe's various illnesses, mental, spiritual and physical, are a recurring theme in her Book. This volume, the first full-length interdisciplinary study from a medical humanities perspective, offers a medicalized reading of Kempe's spirituality in the context of the ubiquitous medieval notion of Christ the Physician, and thus a new way of interpreting the Book itself: as a narrative of Kempe's own engagement with the medical paradigms of which she has previously been a passive subject.

Author(s): Laura Kalas
Publisher: Boydell and Brewer
Year: 2020

Language: English
Pages: 272
City: Cambridge

Frontcover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Note on Editions and Translations
Introduction
1 Bleeding the Tears of Melancholia
2 ‘Þe mukke’ of Marriage and the Sexual Paradox
3 Lost Blood of the Middle Age: Surrogacy and Fecundity
4 Margery Medica: The Healing Value of Pain Surrogacy
5 The Passion of Death Surrogacy
6 Senescent Reproduction: Writing Anamnestic Pain
Afterword / Afterlife
Glossary of Medical Terms
Select Bibliography
Index
Backcover