UWA Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies / PMRG / ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions Public Lecture:
“Where did Margery Kempe Cry?” by Professor Anthony Bale (Birkbeck, University of London)

Date: Friday 11 September 2015
Time: 6:00pm-7:00pm
Venue: Austin Lecture Theatre (First Floor, Arts Building), UWA

RSVPs not required – just come along!

The medieval English mystic Margery Kempe (c. 1373–c. 1439) is famous for having been given ‘the gift of tears’ – this caused her to cry, wail, scream, weep, and sob, uncontrollably and publicly. This lecture will describe the ’emotional geography’ of Kempe’s tears, and focus on providing a detailed account of two of Kempe’s moments of weeping during her pilgrimage to Palestine.

For info about Professor Bale, see: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/…/our-st…/full-time-academic-staff/bale