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Bc. Marcela Vavřinová

Master's thesis

Ordained to be a Mirror: Imitation, Reflection and Liminality in The Book of Margery Kempe

Ordained to be a Mirror: Imitation, Reflection and Liminality in The Book of Margery Kempe
Abstract:
This thesis analyzes a late medieval woman mystic Margery Kempe in the context of her status as a divine mirror and its attributes: imitation, reflection, and liminality. The Book of Margery Kempe presents a unique devotional expression of lay medieval piety and the influence that the affective tradition had on the community.
Abstract:
This thesis analyzes a late medieval woman mystic Margery Kempe in the context of her status as a divine mirror and its attributes: imitation, reflection, and liminality. The Book of Margery Kempe presents a unique devotional expression of lay medieval piety and the influence that the affective tradition had on the community.
 

Keywords

mirror woman medieval mysticism affective piety imitation reflection liminality imitatio Christi comunity authority
 
Language used: English
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 3. 6. 2009
Identifier: https://is.muni.cz/th/akj2u/

Thesis defence

  • Date of defence: 15. 6. 2009
  • Supervisor: doc. Mgr. Pavel Drábek, Ph.D.

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