Anthony Bale, editor of the new Oxford World’s Classics edition of The Book of Margery Kempe, makes a case of the importance of Kempe’s book, and explains why we’re still studying it.
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Anthony Bale studied at the universities of Oxford and York and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published widely on various medieval topics, including Christian-Jewish relations, the poetry of Chaucer and Lydgate, religion in East Anglia, and fifteenth-century literature and pilgrimage. He is the editor of Mandeville's Book of Marvels and Travels in OWC, and in 2011 was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize.
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