Notes
1. Karma Lochrie, Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh (Philadelphia, 1991), p. 155.
2. Walter Principe, "Mysticism: Its Meaning and Varieties," Mystics and Scholars: The Calgary Conference on Mysticism 1976, ed. Harold Coward and Terence Penelhum (Calgary, 1976), pp. 1-15.
3. Principe, "Mysticism," pp. 4-5.
4. Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe, ed. Sanford Brown Meech and Hope Emily Allen, Early English Text Society OS 212 (London, 1940), ch. 41, p. 98. The Book is divided into two books, printed in a single Volume; in my notes, I cite both chapter numbers (from the first book only) and page numbers.
5. Kempe, Book, ch. 77, p. 182.
6. Kempe, Book, ch. 58, p. 143 and ch. 62, p. 154.
7. Kempe, Book, "Introduction," p. 3. For discussions of the paradox of "mystical language," see Carl A. Keller, "Mystical Literature," Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis, ed. Steven T. Katz (New York, 1978), pp. 75-100.
8. Kempe, Book, Introduction, p. 2.
9. Sarah Beckwith, "Problems of Authority in Late Medieval English Mysticism: Language, Agency, and Authority in the Book of Margery Kempe," Exemplaria 4 (1992), 171-199.
10. Louis L. Martz, The Poetry of Meditation (New Haven, 1954), p. 16.
11. Pseudo-Bonaventure, Meditations on the Life of Christ, trans. Isa Ragusa (Princeton, 1961), p. 265.
12. Pseudo-Bonaventure, Meditations, p. 5.
13. Pseudo-Bonaventure, Meditations, p. 31.
14. Pseudo-Bonaventure, Meditations, p. 56.
15. Pseudo-Bonaventure, Meditations, p. 68.
16. Pseudo-Bonaventure, Meditations, p. 133.
17. Lochrie, Margery Kempe and Translations, p. 155.
18. Kempe, Book, ch.73, p. 175.
19. Nanda Hopenwasser, "Margery Kempe, St. Bridget, and Marguerite D'Oingt: The Visionary Writer as Shaman," in Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays, ed. Sandra J. McEntire, Garland Medieval Casebooks 4 (New York, 1992), p. 170.
20. Lochrie, Margery Kempe and Translations, p. 156.
21. Pseudo-Bonaventure, Meditations, p. 5.
22. For discussions of the influence on Margery of the Revelations of Saint Bridget and Elizabeth of Hungary as well as other female mystical writers, see Alexandra Barratt, "Margery Kempe and the King's Daughter of Hungary," in Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays, ed. Sandra McEntire (New York, 1992), pp. 189-201; Julia Bolton Holloway, "Bride, Margery, Julian, and Alice: Bridget of Sweden's Textual Community in Medieval England," in Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays, pp. 203-221; Susan Dickman, "Margery Kempe and the Continental Tradition of the Pious Woman," in The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England, ed. Marion Glasscoe, Exeter Symposium 3 (London, 1984), pp. 150-168.
23. Kempe, Book, ch. 18 and ch. 39.
24. Kempe, Book, ch. 62.
25. Kempe, Book, ch. 72, ch. 73, and ch. 74, respectively.
26. Lochrie, Margery Kempe and Translations, p. 192.
27. Pseudo-Bonaventure, Meditations, p. 343.
28. Mark 16:9-11, John 20:14-17.
29. Mark 16:9 and Luke 7:37-50, respectively.
30. Kempe, Book, ch. 74, p. 176.
31. Kempe, Book, Introduction, p. 6.
32. Pseudo-Bonaventure, Meditations, p. 346.
33. Kempe, Book, ch. 58, p. 143.
34. Pseudo-Bonaventure, Meditations, p. 309.
35. Kempe, Book, ch. 73, p. 174
36. Kempe, Book, ch. 79, pp. 187-188.
37. Kempe, Book, ch. 79, p. 189.
38. Kempe, Book, ch. 79, p. 190.
39. Kempe, Book, ch. 80, p. 193.
40. Kempe, Book, ch. 80, p. 193.
41. Kempe, Book, ch. 80, p. 194.