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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>sounds like Margery Kempe
(c.1373-c.1440)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a neat book titled Wayward Women: A Guide to
Women Travellers (author: Jane Robinson) Robinson describes
Kempe's autobiography as "an exuberant and candid narrative of her life as one
of the most colourful of medieval pilgrims." Kempe dictated her
"124-leaf document" to scribes between 1436 and 1438... it was housed for
centuries in the Carthusian prioriy of Mount Grace in North Yorkshire and was
not discovered again until the 1930's...it is now in the British library... it
is an account of Kempe's travels throughout England and to various shrines,
including Santiago de Compostela. She was indeed from Bristol...and sailed
from there to Spain ... it was about a week's trip sailing.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Scott Wiskoski<BR>Washington DC<BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, March 03, 2002 2:33
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: English Camino</DIV>
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<P>I have misplaced my photocopies of the relevant pages, but in Marilyn
Stokstad's nice little book <EM>Santiago de Compostela in the Age of Great
Pilgimages </EM>(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press) she describes a trip by
a pilgrimage besotted medieval englishwoman who left from Bristol and was back
there in a couple of months with plenty of time to engage in pilgrimage
activities while in Santiago. The book, sadly out of print, is a good
read and recommended.</P>
<P>E. O. Pederson</P>
<P>Seattle, WA<BR></P></DIV></DIV><BR clear=all>
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