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Another example of reduction to body in the book of Margery Kempe is when Jesus tells Margery “Therefore must I needs be homely with you and lie in your bed.

And so she said to her husband, 'I may not deny you my body, but the love of my heart and my affection is drawn from all earthly creatures and set only in God.'.

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Margery Kempe: 6 quotes from England's weeping mystic

Christian Today staff writer

Today the Church of England remembers Margery Kempe. Although not officially a saint, she was a mystic known for her passionate devotion to Christ – devotion that frequent led to storms of weeping and to her being described as 'the Madwoman of God'.

Born in around 1373 and died at some point after 1438, she dictated her 'Book of Margery Kempe' to an unnamed priest – speaking of herself in the third person – and extracts were published the printer Wyken de Worde in 1501.

The manuscript was only rediscovered in 1936.

Kempe was born in Kings Lynn, but made pilgrimages to Rome, Jerusalem, Spain and Germany.

Margery Kempe is a representation that presents how women were objectified.

She seems to have suffered a nervous breakdown after the birth of her first child (she was to have 14) during which she saw demons attacking her. She became very devout, seeing visions and experiencing spiritual ecstasies. She visited Julian of Norwich in her cell and spent time with her, seeki