The Book of Margery Kempe (1430)
A great pilgrim!
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margery_Kempe
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/kemp1frm.htm
The Book of Margery Kempe, Book I, Part I , with footnotes
Edited by Lynn Staley - Originally Published in The Book of Margery Kempe
Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 1996
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.
http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/kempebk.htm excerpts of her book
http://www.holycross.edu/departments/vi ... rimage.htm
Mapping Margery Kempe Pilgrimage - Maps - Pilgrimage Routes: England - Pilgrimage Routes: England, Europe, and the Holy Land (map) - Pilgrimage Site: Jerusalem: Holy Sepulchre (Grave of Christ), - Medieval Jerusalem - Pilgrimages Italy - Site: Rome, Plan of Medieval Rome - Bibliography
http://www.stmargaretskingslynn.org.uk/ ... _kempe.htm short biography
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/staley.htm full text
http://classiclit.about.com/od/booklist ... mkempe.htm - 20 books on Margery Kempe
Margery is mentioned in two more posts on this forum now.
Enjoy!
PS 17-5-9: "
this creature"
Dante explained in
Vita nuova that "pilgrim" could be understood generally, referring in the classical sense to a foreigner, a person outside his country, or, specifically, to a traveler to the shrine of St. James in Compostela or another site. The term "pilgrim" especially applied to those people destined for that Spanish location, while those who pilgrimaged to Jerusalem or
oltramare were "palmers," and those destined for Rome were "Romeos."
[7] In the option of a name—the first personal topic of rhetoric—Loyola is quintessentially a type rather than an indi-[149]vidual; he is a traveler at large while also bound for specific shrines. Although both Peregrinus and Viator were early Christian names,
[8] Loyola is not "a" pilgrim but "the" pilgrim, or Everyman. There did exist third-person accounts of pilgrimage and impersonal guidebooks. An example of a pilgrim-author referring to the self in the third person was
The Book of Margery Kempe , considered the first English autobiography, where the protagonist was "
this creature." Even the usage of "I" and "we" by pilgrim-authors was little personalized in high medieval literature, until more personal touches were added in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. See
http://www.escholarship.org/editions/vi ... and=eschol &
http://www.escholarship.org/editions/vi ... and=eschol > Four The Pilgrim