Transformative Waters in Late-Medieval Literature: From Aelred of Rievaulx to The Book of Margery Kempe by Hetta Howes

Transformative Waters in Late-Medieval Literature: From Aelred of Rievaulx to The Book of Margery Kempe

Hetta Howes

219 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history
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A consideration of the metaphor of water in religious literature, especially in relation to women.Women are frequently depicted as unpredictable, difficult to categorise and prone to transformation in medieval religious writings. Water is equally ...

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