What kind of literature is Margery Kempe’s Book?

Anthony Bale, editor of the new Oxford World’s Classics edition of The Book of Margery Kempe, examines the tone and genre of this unusual example of medieval literature. ukcatalogue.oup...
Anthony Bale studied at the universities of Oxford and York and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published widely on various medieval topics, including Christian-Jewish relations, the poetry of Chaucer and Lydgate, religion in East Anglia, and fifteenth-century literature and pilgrimage. He is the editor of Mandeville's Book of Marvels and Travels in OWC, and in 2011 was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize.
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