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Title In Our Time: Margery Kempe and English Mysticism Degree of recognition International Media name/outlet BBC Radio 4 Media type Radio Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 2/06/16 Description Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the English mystic Margery Kempe (1373-1438) whose extraordinary life is recorded in a book she dictated, The Book of Margery Kempe. She went on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, to Rome and Santiago de Compostela, purchasing indulgences on her way, met with the anchoress Julian of Norwich and is honoured by the Church of England each 9th November. She sometimes doubted the authenticity of her mystical conversations with God, as did the authorities who saw her devotional sobbing, wailing and convulsions as a sign of insanity and dissoluteness. Her Book was lost for centuries, before emerging in a private library in 1934. URL https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07cyfkg Persons Katherine Lewis