Professor Bale is Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London, and an Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, 1100–1800, Distinguished International Visitor in 2015. He has published widely on medieval literature, culture and religion, and is the author of The Jew in the Medieval Book: English Antisemitisms 1350–1500 (Cambridge University Press, 2006), which was awarded a Koret Foundation Jewish Studies Publications Program award and the 2006/7 Ronald Tress Prize, and Feeling Persecuted: Christians, Jews and Images of Violence in the Middle Ages (Reaktion, 2010), which was awarded the 2011 Beatrice White Prize by the English Association. He has also edited and translated several medieval texts, including John Mandeville’s The Book of Marvels and Travels (Oxford University Press, 2012), The Lives of Ss Edmund and Fremund and the Extra Miracles of St Edmund, Edited from British Library MS Harley 2278 and Bodleian MS Ashmole 46 (Universitaetsverlag Winter, 2009) and, most recently, a new translation and edition of The Book of Margery Kempe with Oxford University Press (2015). His current work explores travel and pilgrimage between England and the Holy Land in the later Middle Ages.
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11th September 2015, 18:00 - 19:00
Where did Margery Kempe Cry?
Where did Margery Kempe Cry?