Margergy Kempe:

In Search of the Scribe

The Language of Self Identity:

The Scribe in the Text

Candidates for the Role of Priest-Scribe:

Textual Representations

The Dominican Anchorite

The “ankyr” at the Friar Preachers who serves as Margery’s principal confessor.

Master Robert Spryngolde

The sharp priest who serves as Margery’s confessor in the anchorite’s stead.

Master Allen

A White Friar and doctor of divinity.

The English Priest

A priest Margery meets in Rome, who she accepts “as her son.”

Wenslawe, The German Priest

A German and Latin-speaking priest Margery meets in Rome.

Reader Priest

A priest newly come to Lynn in 1413, who reads to Margery for seven years.

Minor Characters

Richard Caister, Thomas Andrew, John Amy

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