Margery Kempe and her Book studied in both literary and historical context.

Papers presented at the Conference, Consuming the past held at University of York, 29 November - 1 December 1996.

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Articles by Bain Attwood, Tim Murray, Gillian Cowlishaw, Stephen Muecke, Andrew Lattas, Philip Jones, Barry Morris, Tim Rowse, Heather Goodall, Jan Pettman and Colin Pardoe annotated separately.