Books by Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa

An exploration of the relations between medical and religious discourse and practice in medieval culture, focussing on how they are affected by gender.

"The Book of Margery Kempe" has generally been judged to be over-emotional and its structure regarded as at worst non-existent, at best naive. This work argues instead that The Book unfolds a creative experience of memory as spiritual progress, and explores Margery's meditational experience in the context of visual and verbal iconography.