"Margery Kempe of Lynn Norfolk took pains in the decades of her prime to have her life as mother, wife, and pilgrim recorded for posterity. With erudition and sympathy, Bale frames Margery–a doubting, aching, troubled, and fiercely independent woman–within the European cities that staged her life, and so makes her more familiar than any fifteenth-century woman has ever been."–Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History, Queen Mary University of London, author of Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe
