Bonus Episode: "Margery," the medieval memoirist
Feb 09, 2025•9 min
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Episode description
For centuries, scholars only had one version of the life of Margery Kempe, an English mystic who lived in the 14th and 15th centuries — until a ping pong match revealed her story in her own words.
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