Annotated Bibliography: Margery Kempe
This is due in class on Monday, October 1, 2013.
Annotated Bibliography
The purpose of this assignment is to help find appropriate sources for your research paper. Often, it is too easy to turn to the Internet for sources, but often these sources are not reliable. This assignment will assist students in learning what to look for in sources and how to determine good and bad sources.
Steps to writing this annotated bibliography:
1. Choose your subject (person).
2. Start researching your subject. You will need to find 8 sources total: 2 primary sources and 6 secondary sources. I am limiting you to 2 Internet sources. You must use Jstor. This is not an option.
3. Decide if your sources are good.
4. In the Annotated bibliography, …show more content…
Mary Dzon
April 4, 2007
Topic: Continental mystics influenced Margery Kempe’s spiritual thinking and experience. The writings of female mystics were probably her primary sources, but this annotated bibliography includes reference to the men as well as the women whose lives and work seem to have most affected Kempe’s mysticism.
Primary Sources
Bridget of Sweden, Saint The Liber Celestis of St Bridget of Sweden, vol I. Roger Ellis, ed. Oxford: EETS, 1987.
St. Bridget of Sweden is often hailed as one of the greatest Continental influences on Margery Kempe, and the Liber Celestis provides ample evidence. This text was translated into Middle English by an anonymous hand, but Ellis provides evidence for the ME text as a “faithful translation of its Latin original” (xiii). He has modernized the Liber with basic English grammar (capitalization, punctuation, word separation, and paragraphing, among others). Ellis finds similarities between St. Bridget and Kempe: both appear as a narrative autobiography; they way their revelations are categorized in their respective books—Bridget has visions of knightly and episcopal orders, while Margery has collected visions of the life of Christ; both books are written in third person, “so as to oblige the reader to attend not to the human medium but to the divine message transmitted through the medium” (xiv). Yet, Ellis also finds differences …show more content…
The Book of Margery Kempe. Lynn Staley, ed. Kalamazoo: Medieval
Institute Publications, for TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages), 1996.
Staley provides a clear, readable version of The Book of Margery Kempe, which includes helpful notes for clarification, a full select bibliography for further study, and a critical introduction to the text in which Staley discusses the Book’s place in late medieval English mystical tradition, How Kempe understood herself in that tradition, the role of the scribes whose hands created the extant text, and some of the ways scholars have analyzed Kempe and The Book. Staley has left the text in a readable form of Middle English and has included helpful vocabulary references on each page.
Secondary Sources
Adams, Gwenfair Walters. Visions in late Medieval England: Lay Spirituality and
Annotated Bibliography
The purpose of this assignment is to help find appropriate sources for your research paper. Often, it is too easy to turn to the Internet for sources, but often these sources are not reliable. This assignment will assist students in learning what to look for in sources and how to determine good and bad sources.
Steps to writing this annotated bibliography:
1. Choose your subject (person).
2. Start researching your subject. You will need to find 8 sources total: 2 primary sources and 6 secondary sources. I am limiting you to 2 Internet sources. You must use Jstor. This is not an option.
3. Decide if your sources are good.
4. In the Annotated bibliography, …show more content…
Mary Dzon
April 4, 2007
Topic: Continental mystics influenced Margery Kempe’s spiritual thinking and experience. The writings of female mystics were probably her primary sources, but this annotated bibliography includes reference to the men as well as the women whose lives and work seem to have most affected Kempe’s mysticism.
Primary Sources
Bridget of Sweden, Saint The Liber Celestis of St Bridget of Sweden, vol I. Roger Ellis, ed. Oxford: EETS, 1987.
St. Bridget of Sweden is often hailed as one of the greatest Continental influences on Margery Kempe, and the Liber Celestis provides ample evidence. This text was translated into Middle English by an anonymous hand, but Ellis provides evidence for the ME text as a “faithful translation of its Latin original” (xiii). He has modernized the Liber with basic English grammar (capitalization, punctuation, word separation, and paragraphing, among others). Ellis finds similarities between St. Bridget and Kempe: both appear as a narrative autobiography; they way their revelations are categorized in their respective books—Bridget has visions of knightly and episcopal orders, while Margery has collected visions of the life of Christ; both books are written in third person, “so as to oblige the reader to attend not to the human medium but to the divine message transmitted through the medium” (xiv). Yet, Ellis also finds differences …show more content…
The Book of Margery Kempe. Lynn Staley, ed. Kalamazoo: Medieval
Institute Publications, for TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages), 1996.
Staley provides a clear, readable version of The Book of Margery Kempe, which includes helpful notes for clarification, a full select bibliography for further study, and a critical introduction to the text in which Staley discusses the Book’s place in late medieval English mystical tradition, How Kempe understood herself in that tradition, the role of the scribes whose hands created the extant text, and some of the ways scholars have analyzed Kempe and The Book. Staley has left the text in a readable form of Middle English and has included helpful vocabulary references on each page.
Secondary Sources
Adams, Gwenfair Walters. Visions in late Medieval England: Lay Spirituality and