Margery Kempe

<p>Daughter of a mayor of King's Lynn wife of a burgess there and mother of fourteen children Margery Kempe (c. 1373-post 1438) was also a religious mystic and hysteric who dictated her 'autobiography' to a scribe at the end of her life. In this history of her life Anthony Goodman examines The Book to reconstruct as much of her conventional biography as the materials allow. Including her spiritual experiences but focusing most particularly on her day-to-day life he builds an intriguing picture of bourgeois society in late medieval Lynn and the wider world of late medieval towns in England and Europe more generally.</p>