#mystics #mysticism #spirituality #contemplation #margerykempe #richardrolle #thecloudofunknowing #williamblake #evelynunderhill

🔔 Lecture next week @girtoncollege.bsky.social: all welcome. Susan Maddock (@uniofeastanglia.bsky.social; Ex-Principal Archivist @norfolkro.bsky.social): '“Free from their husbands”: #MargeryKempe & other wives & widows in fifteenth-century Lynn.' Stanley Library, Girton College, 20th Jan, 5:30pm.

Medieval Friendships: No Girls Allowed - JSTOR Daily Medieval European elites inherited the classical concept of friendship as something possible only for men. Christine de Pizan and Margery Kempe beg to differ.

« Both writers diverge from the idea of friendship as a mirror, instead showing how women with different skills and strengths can collaborate on shared projects. » daily.jstor.org/medieval-fri...

#christinedepizan #margerykempe

#MargeryKempe

In Our Time - Margery Kempe and English Mysticism - BBC Sounds Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Margery Kempe, the medieval English mystic.

Really interesting discussion about #MargeryKempe & her times:
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BBC Radio 4 - History's Heroes, History's Toughest Heroes, Margery Kempe: Ministry of Tears A medieval woman finds superhuman strength in her tears.

One for the #MargeryKempe stans. And the #RayWinstone stans. Dream team! 😭💪
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History's Heroes - History's Toughest Heroes - Margery Kempe: Ministry of Tears - BBC Sounds A medieval woman finds superhuman strength in her tears.

History's Toughest Heroes
Margery Kempe: Ministry of Tears
History's Heroes
#MargeryKempe always tells it like it is. But in Medieval England, such straight-talking can get a woman killed...
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Just sitting here enjoying imagining #MargeryKempe as a digital mystic. Oh my Queen of Mystic TikTok.

One for the #MargeryKempe fans!

#MargeryKempe then wore the white habit of the chaste widow & wrestled w/her lust for attractive young men. After her husband died, she took up kissing lepers & other saintly behaviors & hired two scribes to document her life. #MiracleOrLie HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex

DYK Margery Burnham married John Kempe in 1393. #MargeryKempe claimed God appeared to her & asked her to do w/o sex. Her husband insisted on his conjugal rights. After her 14th child, he grudgingly agreed to a chaste marriage so she could pursue her life as a saint.

Margery Kempe: mother, mystic, author, and a woman who wept. What other historic religious figures do you want to learn about next? #margerykempe #medievalmysticism #middleage #mystics #thebookofmargerykempe

A new #MargeryKempe just dropped.

Cosey Fanni Tutti's journey through art, porn and music The artist reflects on the exhibition that once saw her labelled a

Tutti says Kempe's story left her "gobsmacked".

"A woman from the 1300s who was resisting everything that was expected of a woman back then, and the more I looked into her, the more relevant her story was to me."

#MargeryKempe getting love from Cosey Fanni Tutti! 💙

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in which I explore the lives of both Julian and her boisterous mystical contemporary #MargeryKempe - who wrote the FIRST known autobiography in English! The two women met in 1413 and talked together about their lives and visions. In my book, I imagine this remarkable conversation.

Oh, it's me! FOR THY GREAT PAIN HAVE MERCY ON MY LITTLE PAIN - for readers who like long weird titles and short weird books. 💙 (An excellent Easter present, if that's even a thing? 🐣🐰) #MargeryKempe #JulianofNorwich

Photo of Lady Gaga in red lace outfit and spikey halo. Photo (c) Stephen Lovekin/ Getty Images

If anyone ever made a film of my novel, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain, (cough, anyone??) I've realised who'd be the perfect #MargeryKempe. Why yes, #LadyGaga, of course. 🤩 Suggestions for #JulianofNorwich welcome.

Margery Kempe was a a contemporary of Julian of Norwich. We were lucky to have Joanna Swan playing her because she's an incredibly versatile actress. Delighted that The Glad Giver is included in next week's UK International Radio Drama Festival.
#ukirdf #julianofnorwich #margerykempe #audiodrama

236. Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich — Religious Mystics with Victoria MacKenzie — Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast Religious mystics Margery of Kempe and Julian of Norwich lived in close proximity to one another in time and place, yet the lives of these two medieval women couldn’t have been more different. One tra...

Delighted to be a guest on the brilliant podcast Lost Ladies of Lit! Thanks Amy and Kim for inviting me to talk about #JulianofNorwich and #MargeryKempe and my novel FOR THY GREAT PAIN HAVE MERCY ON MY LITTLE PAIN with you! 📚
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Photo of my novel, FOR THY GREAT PAIN, face out in Waterstones, with a staff recommendation shelf sign.

Piles and piles of my novel, FOR THY GREAT PAIN, in all its bright blue beauty.

Happy first birthday to this electric blue paperback baby! 💙 FOR THY GREAT PAIN HAVE MERCY ON MY LITTLE PAIN explores the lives of medieval mystics #JulianofNorwich and #MargeryKempe.
Winner of the Saltire First Book Award and a Book of the Year in the Guardian, Sunday Times and Irish Times! 😍📚

Front cover of Eleanor Among the Saints by Rachel Mann, with detail from tapestry of woman with unicorn.

Photo of poem from Rachel Mann's book, 'Eleanor as Julian as Margery'

This is such a brilliant collection! Sensual and witty and moving. And I'm not just saying that because my two medieval best girls are here... #JulianofNorwich #MargeryKempe Congratulations @revrachelmann.bsky.social!

“This Creature”: 40 Years of Margery Kempe In the mid-1970s, casting about for a dissertation topic, I stumbled over Margery Kempe. In those days you had to stumble over her – she did not appear in the syllabus of any course in medieval stu…

Brilliant indeed! I spent a looooong time with Margery starting back in the 1970s #MargeryKempe oldestvocation.com/2015/02/24/t...

I'm so very happy you enjoyed it!
In my agent query letter I wrote "Perhaps a strange book for an agnostic to have written..." But true. No faith myself but fascinated by those who have it. And #JulianofNorwich and #MargeryKempe were simply extraordinary, I couldn't resist writing about them.

Dr Eleanor Jackson, curator of the @britishlibrary.bsky.social 's Medieval Women exhibition, talking about Margery Kempe - episode 1 of Kickass Women of History is available now, wherever you get your podcasts!

#history #womenshistory #margerykempe #medieval #medievalwomen #podcast

Including a #MargeryKempe poem by yours truly!!! 🥳 So excited to receive my copy!

Tales of Time: From Medieval to Modern from See Tickets Buy tickets for Tales of Time: From Medieval to Modern at British Library from the official retailer, Medieval Women Events.

A little reminder that on Thursday 6th February (1 month today) I'll be at the British Library with Siân Hughes (author of Booker-longlisted PEARL) talking all things Medieval Women! #ForThyGreatPain #MargeryKempe #JulianofNorwich #Medievalsky
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A little late night reading:

@coseyfannitutti.bsky.social
#coseyfannitutti
#deliaderbyshire
#margerykempe
#electroniccomposers

An article by @BradStevens22 in @SightSoundmag for #historyofemotions folks & #MargeryKempe fans: "As tears go by: why do film characters cry at the cinema?" www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound...

#MedievalBrain #k1 Saunders on careful distinctions between ghostly & bodily sense exp in @RealMargery & inner dialogue models #MargeryKempe

#MedievalBrain #k1 Saunders on limits of biomedical diagnoses for understanding multisensory complexity of @RealMargery #MargeryKempe