"On a nygth, as this creatur lay in hir bedde wyth hir husbond, sche herd a sownd of melodye so swet and delectable, h…"

"Sche cam beforn the Erchebischop and fel down on hir kneys, the Erchebischop seying ful boystowsly unto hir, "Why wep…"

"Sometimes she felt sweet smells with her nose; it was sweeter, she thought, than ever was any sweet earthly thing tha…"

"As an intimate record of personal religious experience it has few equals. The marks of accuracy, sincerity, and reali…"

"Margery was more of a religious hysteric than a mystic. But she gives a vibrant account of her life as a woman to who…"

"The Book of Margery Kempe tells the story of one woman’s spiritual journey in Medieval England over a twenty-five yea…"

"Kempe describes, in this extract and elsewhere, what could be construed as classic psychotic symptoms; visions, audit…"

"Kempe was psychotic for much of her adult life...Kempe continued to have psychotic symptoms throughout the remainder …"

"Given this mixture of affective and schizophrenic features a modern psychiatric diagnosis for Margery Kempe would mos…"

"We also know that Julian too received frequent visitors, as is attested by the autobiography of another fervent Chris…"