• DOI:10.1353/lm.2014.0017
Corpus ID: 45847065

Forged by Fire: Margery Kempe’s Account of Postnatal Psychosis

@article{Jefferies2014ForgedBF,
  title={Forged by Fire: Margery Kempe’s Account of Postnatal Psychosis},
  author={D. Jefferies and D. Horsfall},
  journal={Literature and Medicine},
  year={2014},
  volume={32},
  pages={348 - 364}
}

D. Jefferies, D. Horsfall

Published 2014

Medicine, Sociology

Literature and Medicine

The opening sequence of the autobiography, The Book of Margery Kempe, written in approximately 1439, describes an episode of illness after the birth of a first child, which medical historians have identified as postnatal psychosis. Margery however, interpreted her experience of postnatal psychosis in terms of her own worldview, using a Christian paradigm. She was convinced that her recovery was an example of Grace emanating from her special relationship with God which gave her divine knowledge… CONTINUE READING

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