Margery Kempe, born around 1373, was a visionary and mystic from King’s Lynn (then known as Bishop’s Lynn) in Norfolk. Her book is the first autobiography in English, probably written by a scribe on her behalf. The story she tells of her life is extraordinary, both strange and familiar to us today. She was an […]
Margery Kempe, born around 1373, was a visionary and mystic from King’s Lynn (then known as Bishop’s Lynn) in Norfolk. Her book is the first autobiography in English, probably written by a scribe on her behalf. The story she tells of her life is extraordinary, both strange and familiar to us today. She was an […]
Margery Kempe, born in 1373, was from King’s Lynn (then known as Bishop’s Lynn) in Norfolk. Daughter of an important merchant, five-time mayor of Lynn and Alderman of the prestigious Guild of the Holy Trinity, John Brunham, her book is the first autobiography in English, probably written by a scribe on her behalf (although it’s […]
With Vivien Ellis and the choir of the Parish church of St Mary Magdalene, the music of medieval English nuns will resound in this very historic church.
