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From the book of margery kempe oral tradition journal. Her book chronicles her domestic tribulations, her extensive pilgrimages to holy sites in europe and the holy land, as well as her mystical conversations with god. The construction of womens authority in a protofeminist context. For a discussion of the role of the magdalene in the late medieval literature of devotion, including further bibliographical. She is honoured in the anglican communion, but was never made a catholic saint. The dynamics of this and similar episodes, that abound in the book of margery kempe 1501, has led me to inquiry into the extent to which margery kempe was a protofeminist, that is, a woman who promoted a dignified view of her sex before any modern notion of feminism. Margery kempe and translations of the flesh on jstor. The book of margery kempe is the earliest autobiography in english margery kempe lived in the east anglian town of lynn in the early 15th century, and was at various times the owner of a horsemill and a brewer, but later in her life she became a visionary and mystic.