Chapter 6 Dark Nights of Romance

romance; essay

Chapter EIGHT Writing Revelation

This essay addresses intersections of gender and genre by exploring the complex ways in which the Book of Margery Kempe draws on other devotional texts, particularly those of Hilton and Rolle, on the lives of holy women, and on Kempe's own social and cultural contexts, in order to shape a unique type of life-writing. Attention is paid to the multi-modal sensory quality of Kempe's visionary experience, and to the privileging of voice across the book. Topics addressed include the ways in which affective and cognitive combine in Kempe's experience, the difficulty of placing inner experience, the paradoxes inherent in attempting to express the ineffable, and the radical quality of her attempt to write an inner life

Reading Margery Kempe’s inner voices

This article draws on research from the major collaborative research project Hearing the Voice, based at Durham University, to reconsider and foreground Margery Kempe’s inner voices, and hence, to return to an emphasis on inner, spiritual experience as shaping her Book. The richness of Margery’s multi-sensory experience, and the care with which it is depicted, is illuminated by and illuminates the experience of contemporary voice-hearers, offering a powerful alternative perspective to often reductive bio-medical understandings. Contemporary cognitive frameworks, particularly scientific accounts of inner speech, are in turn employed to open out Margery’s inner voices and to offer insights into the psychology of spiritual meditation

Reading women in the medieval information age: the life of Elizabeth of Spalbeek and the book of Margery Kempe

In fifteenth-century England, information about the natural and supernatural worlds came to be broadly distributed in texts that circulated well beyond the institutional contexts in which this knowledge was first produced. Vernacular texts that deal with natural philosophy, medicine, and science, alongside a range of religious topics, were created in record numbers for a widening audience. Many of these testify to intensified interest in all aspects of the human body. Religious works written by, about, and for women participate in this ferment of ideas and information, crossing the boundaries between secular and transcendent themes and concerns. Because religious women were understood to have a special relationship to forms of physical piety, their vitae served as important vehicles for the production and dissemination of thinking about corporeality. The radical asceticism of the thirteenth-century Low Countries visionary Elizabeth of Spalbeek, as detailed in an important Middle English collection from the 1420s, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 114, can be read as an investigation of the possibilities of the fleshly, this-worldly human body to materialize divine truth, and thus by extension as participating in local and intimate ways in the distribution and deinstitutionalization of knowledge. The Book of Margery Kempe, a work often seen as taking up the conventions of affective piety, [End Page 253] similarly participates in a current discourse concerning the materiality of the divine. As the work's complex treatment of the spirit as breath, fire, inspiration, or pneuma suggests, the Book is at once a contributor to and a product of the late medieval information era.Published versio

Adaptacion cultural de Latinos en comunidad C, MO : perspectivas de los miembros de las comunidades inmigrantes y de acogida

Proposito del estudio: Entender las perspectivas de los Latinos y miembros de la comunidad de acogida sobre la integracion de los inmigrantes Latinos en las comunidades rurales del medio-oeste del pais. Metas del estudio: Este estudio es parte de un proyecto de participacion en accion mas amplio, que examina que estrategias contribuyen al logro de la integracion de los inmigrantes latinos en las comunidades rurales en las que viven y trabajan.Includes bibliographical references

Perspectivas de comunidades imigrantes y de acogida sobre la adaptacion cultural de Latinos en comunidad B, MO

Proposito del estudio: Entender las perspectivas de Latinos y miembros de la comunidad de acogida sobre la integracion de imigrantes Latinos en comunidades rurales en el medio-oeste del pais.Includes bibliographical references

The Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer Book 2018

(Abridged) This is the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer 2018 book. It is intended as a concise reference guide to all aspects of the scientific and technical design of MSE, for the international astronomy and engineering communities, and related agencies. The current version is a status report of MSE's science goals and their practical implementation, following the System Conceptual Design Review, held in January 2018. MSE is a planned 10-m class, wide-field, optical and near-infrared facility, designed to enable transformative science, while filling a critical missing gap in the emerging international network of large-scale astronomical facilities. MSE is completely dedicated to multi-object spectroscopy of samples of between thousands and millions of astrophysical objects. It will lead the world in this arena, due to its unique design capabilities: it will boast a large (11.25 m) aperture and wide (1.52 sq. degree) field of view; it will have the capabilities to observe at a wide range of spectral resolutions, from R2500 to R40,000, with massive multiplexing (4332 spectra per exposure, with all spectral resolutions available at all times), and an on-target observing efficiency of more than 80%. MSE will unveil the composition and dynamics of the faint Universe and is designed to excel at precision studies of faint astrophysical phenomena. It will also provide critical follow-up for multi-wavelength imaging surveys, such as those of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, Gaia, Euclid, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, the Square Kilometre Array, and the Next Generation Very Large Array.Comment: 5 chapters, 160 pages, 107 figure

Complete Genome Sequence of the Complex Carbohydrate-Degrading Marine Bacterium, Saccharophagus degradans Strain 2-40T

The marine bacterium Saccharophagus degradans strain 2-40 (Sde 2-40) is emerging as a vanguard of a recently discovered group of marine and estuarine bacteria that recycles complex polysaccharides. We report its complete genome sequence, analysis of which identifies an unusually large number of enzymes that degrade >10 complex polysaccharides. Not only is this an extraordinary range of catabolic capability, many of the enzymes exhibit unusual architecture including novel combinations of catalytic and substrate-binding modules. We hypothesize that many of these features are adaptations that facilitate depolymerization of complex polysaccharides in the marine environment. This is the first sequenced genome of a marine bacterium that can degrade plant cell walls, an important component of the carbon cycle that is not well-characterized in the marine environment