Religious Figures In The Book Of Margery Kempe

In The Book of Margery Kempe, Kempe devotes her book to tell her life story of her connection to Christ and other religious figures. Many people held doubts and questions of her actions and visions therefore she wrote the book to explain herself and show evidence of her connections. In mysticism a women holds the characteristic of body of God and men hold the characterics of god that follows the idea of judging and reason. Therefore visions would fall under women. During Kempe era women always had to justify themselves and their actions while men would not be questioned.
Kempe has numerous visions with religious figures she has mentioned in her book to show her connection with grace. She tells her husband and family of the visions she has with religious figures such as Christ and Mary. For example, she has a vision of a man(Christ) telling her "Daughter, why have you forsaken me, and I never forsook you?” She says how she had a vision of how she were to be abstinent, wear white and fast. She told her husband one day how she was going to follow these rules set out to her by God. Her husband placed a condition onto her decision if she
However, it is clear that visions are close to impossible. Therefore there is a strong possibility that she was mentally challenged, for example, a schizophrenic. She was always surrounded by religion and her vision incorporated different biblical stories she heard at church or images she saw of church relations. This could explain her visions always relating to what she was always surrounded around. Another possibility is she knew her visions were false, however she was using it as a way to show she had a strong connection to the divine. During her era religion was the leading way of life and if she were to have a connection with God it would help her odds for canonization to become a Saint. She is either mentally challenged or a