Book of Margery Kempe The Autobiography of the Madwoman of God

The Book of Margery Kempe is the story of a boisterous worldly mystic, that will appeal to modern women. Margery, the mother o fourteen, wife of a debt-ridden & lusty husband, & a hoarder of "secret" sin, brings the world of medieval women alive to contemporary readers. Her earthly & emotional autobiography, dictated to a priest near the end of her life & known as the first written in English, reveals a woman whose passions & vanities were turned from self-absorption to the service of her Lord. It records a brand of mysticism marked by pilgrimages, secret penances, near hangings as a heretic, uncontrollable tears inspired by the Holy Spirit, & a love of God so intense that the passion of Jesus reeled before Margery in much the same way as a film does for us today. The Book of Margery Kempe paints a vivid portrait of a unique medieval mystic-a woman more vibrantly & emotionally attached to God than to pious mortifications carried out in isolation.Triggs, Tony D. is the author of 'Book of Margery Kempe The Autobiography of the Madwoman of God' with ISBN 9780892438259 and ISBN 0892438258.