Name: Margery Kempe's Spiritual Medicine: Suffering, Transformation and the Life-Course (en Inglés)
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Author: Laura Kalas
ISBN: 9781843845546

portada Margery Kempe's Spiritual Medicine: Suffering, Transformation and the Life-Course (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

D.S.Brewer

Autor

Laura Kalas

Año

2020

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

268

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9781843845546

Categorías

Estilo medieval
Estudios literarios antiguos, clásicos y medievales

Margery Kempe's Spiritual Medicine: Suffering, Transformation and the Life-Course (en Inglés)

Laura Kalas (Autor) · D.S.Brewer · Tapa Dura

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Margery Kempe's various illnesses, mental, spiritual and physical, are a recurring theme in her Book. This volume, the first full-length interdisciplinary study from a medical humanities perspective, offers a medicalized reading of Kempe's spirituality in the context of the ubiquitous medieval notion of Christ the Physician, and thus a new way of interpreting the Book itself: as a narrative of Kempe's own engagement with the medical paradigms of which she has previously been a passive subject.Focusing on the interactions of medicine, mysticism and reproduction as a feminist project, the author explores the ontology of female flesh; the productive use of pain, suffering and sickness; and the ethics of a maternal theology based on the melancholic and surrogate activities that underlie Kempe's experience. Structured broadly via a traverse through the life course, the book shows how Kempe's response to suffering is illuminated by the medieval medical discourse by which she is contemporaneously read, and by which she engineers her own construction and understanding of self. It also explores Kempe's persistent attendance to her mystical body and refusal to compromise her instinct to authentically show how she feels.LAURA KALAS is a Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Swansea University.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Bleeding the Tears of Melancholia2. 'e mukke' of Marriage and the Sexual Paradox3. Lost Blood of the Middle Age: Surrogacy and Fecundity4. Margery Medica: The Healing Value of Pain Surrogacy5. The Passion of Death Surrogacy6. Senescent Reproduction: Writing Anamnestic PainAfterword / AfterlifeSelect BibliographyGlossary of Medical Terms