As historians, we can explore Margery Kempe’s Book for evidence of how one well-informed and aspiring middle-class English laywoman responded to the issues of her day.
For your essay, you will consider how Margery grapples with the ongoing crises and opportunities coming out of late medieval Europe. What old ideas does she challenge, and why? What new opportunities does she make the most of? As you conclude your essay, you may reflect on which trends seen in Margery’s life are picked up by Martin Luther 100 years later.
the history textbook:
https://nerd.wwnorton.com/nerd/259657/r/goto/cfi/208!/4?control=control-toc
the book of margery kempe:
https://dn790006.ca.archive.org/0/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.186348/2015.186348.The-Book-Of-Margery-Kempe.pdf
HOW TO CITE:
Do not put page numbers in parentheses in your essay. Your footnotes will look like this:
1. Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe, trans. Barry Windeatt (Penguin Books, 1968), p. xx. [or Chapter zz]
2. Kempe, Book p. yy [or Chapter qq]. {< this is the SHORT format, to be used in subsequent citations}
à [Note: you may cite Margery by chapter number, instead of using the page number. However you choose to cite her Book, be consistent]
3. Joshua Cole and Carol Symes, Western Civilizations, Brief Sixth Edition (New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2023), p. xx.
4. Cole and Symes, p. zz. {< this is the SHORT format, to be used in subsequent citations}
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