Unlikely matter : the open and the nomad in "The Book of Margery Kempe" and the Middle English "Christina Mirabilis"
- In "The Book of Margery Kempe", the protagonist shifts between identities and geographies as a nomadic subject, dispersed across compassionate responses to violence that unusually include a recognition of animal suffering. The "Life" of Christina the Astonishing also seizes on the nonhuman aspects of extreme affective experience as her bodily transformations participate in a process of becoming animal. Both texts reflect a medieval fascination with the devotional body as a zone of closure and opening where transhuman and interspecies associations can be safely explored.
| Author: | Johannes WolfORCiD |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-687085 |
| URL: | https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-23/wolf_unlikely-matter.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-23_09 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-029-9 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-030-5 |
| ISSN: | 2627-731X |
| Parent Title (English): | Openness in Medieval Europe / ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum ; Cultural Inquiry ; 23 |
| Publisher: | ICI Press |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2022/06/27 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2022/07/06 |
| Tag: | Affect theory; Animal studies; Devotional literature; Spirituality |
| GND Keyword: | The book of Margery Kempe; Thomas, von Cantimpré; Vita Christinae; Körper; Tiere <Motiv>; Spiritualität |
| Page Number: | 21 |
| First Page: | 170 |
| Last Page: | 189 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 497201178 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
| 8 Literatur / 82 Englische, altenglische Literaturen / 820 Englische, altenglische Literaturen | |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 |
