Memoirs of a Medieval Woman: The Life And Times Of Margery Kempe

This unique biography tells the story of an extraordinary fifteenth-century woman who journeyed all over Europe from England to the Holy Land.A vigorous and passionate woman, Margery kempe was married and had fourteen children when she deserted her family to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to expiate a "secret sin" in her early life.Along the way she meets many famous prelates and dignitaries, gets into all sorts of scrapes, and survives a feverish voyage in the stinking galleys of a Venetian boat.SC, 269 pages.