What was life like for a middle class medieval woman?

Anthony Bale, editor of the new Oxford World’s Classics edition of The Book of Margery Kempe, explains what Margery Kempe’s account can tell us about the life of a middle class medieval woman. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199686643.do

Anthony Bale studied at the universities of Oxford and York and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published widely on various medieval topics, including Christian-Jewish relations, the poetry of Chaucer and Lydgate, religion in East Anglia, and fifteenth-century literature and pilgrimage. He is the editor of Mandeville's Book of Marvels and Travels in OWC, and in 2011 was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize.

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