... guidance she was able to tour Europe and take pilgrimages to far away countries, such as Rome, Jerusalem, and Germany; another remarkable feat for a woman in medieval society (2001). One of the few comic moments of "The Book of Margery Kempe," occurs when John Kempe, exhausted by his wife's insistence that they should be celibate, asks if she would rather see him decapitated by a murderer than ... to her visions, she is an eyewitness to the events in the gospel, i.e. Christ's crucifixion (2001). The author spends much time in prayer, has visions of the Trinity, the salvation and damnati...

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