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本篇論文旨於探討《瑪喬芮‧坎普之書》中女性身體與靈性的關係，以進一步了解中世紀晚期女性基督教友之信仰特質(late medieval female piety)。瑪喬芮對人性化基督的崇拜賦予女性身體非凡的宗教意義。瑪喬芮立志仿效基督的身體：苦行、「具有情緒感染力的敬拜」(affective piety)、「效法基督」 (imitatio Christi)，皆被瑪喬芮運用在她自身的女性身體上，以便彰顯她的信仰。第一章探討瑪喬芮身體與靈性的關係，並解析瑪喬芮透過身體展現其信仰的肇因及方式。第二章探究瑪喬芮之身體與基督身體間的密契關係。深受聖經中基督「道成肉身」(Word made flesh)故事的影響，瑪喬芮時常領受聖嚏A從而連結她的身體與基督的身體。藉由領受聖擊P基督的身體相連結，瑪喬芮的「效法基督」體現了中世紀晚期女性基督教友以人性化基督為中心之信仰特質。第三章探討瑪喬芮的言辭、身體及主權。瑪喬芮與基督的冥想對話賦予她發聲的權力。瑪喬芮巧妙地運用言辭來闡述她對「聖斃凗憿v的堅信，並辯解她並沒有講道，她只是傳播神的福音。西歐十三、十四世紀基督教會備受異端思想衝擊。瑪喬芮的言辭與正統信仰鞏固神職人員的主權，並透過與基督密契的宗教經驗，她的見證延續了教會在民間的威信。中世紀晚期女性身體的經歷像是病痛、狂喜、空中飄浮、聖痕及神聖性的厭食，均被中世紀晚期女性視為可比擬基督在世生活之經歷。職是之故，中世紀晚期女性基督教友之信仰以人性化基督為中心，側重具有情緒感染力的敬拜方式，此外，不同於中世紀前期與盛期，它強調身體與靈性二者為一體，密不可分。《瑪喬芮‧坎普之書》的主人翁展現中世紀晚期女性之敬虔；她的身體與靈性是不可分開的。瑪喬芮俗世化的靈修經歷包含身體及靈性上的變化，透過「效法基督」的密契方式，世俗的婦女亦得以「肉身道成」。

This thesis aims to examine Margery’s body and spirituality in The Book of Margery Kempe so as to better understand the late medieval female piety. Margery practices late medieval piety to devote to Christ’s humanity and to give her body an extraordinary religious meaning. Margery manipulates her body to parallel with Christ’s body: her practicing asceticism, affective piety and imitatio Christi, attribute to her goal of inscribing Christ’s image on her body. Chapter One aims at the exploration of the relationship between Margery’s body and spirituality, and argues why and how Margery demonstrates her faith and spirituality through her body. Chapter Two further examines Margery’s body and its relationship with Christ’s body. Christ as a human provides a paradigm for Margery’s flesh to be intimate with his flesh. Margery constantly receives Eucharist, and her practice of affective piety and imitatio Christi enable her body to coordinate in Christ’s body. By aligning her body with Christ’s body, Margery validates her body and spirituality. Chapter Three tackles with the issue of Margery’s rhetoric, body and authority. Margery’s “dalyawns,” which are her spiritual dialogues with Christ, empower her to speak out her voice. Margery ingeniously uses her rhetoric to illustrate her belief in transubstantiation and shows that she does not preach, she only teaches about God. Margery bolsters the ecclesiastical authority when it is attacked by the heresy, and through Christ’s authority in her words the Church’s authority is sustained. Margery’s body and spirituality are inseparable. Her somatic experiences display her spiritual transformation and manifests that flesh is the access to the divine. Margery’s Book provides us an insight into the late medieval female piety where women’s somatic experiences like illness, pain, trances, levitations, stigmata, and holy anorexia, were valued by them to parallel the events in Christ’s life.

Abstract………………………………………………………………………………..i
Chinese Abstract………………………………………………………………………ii
Acknowledgements…………………………………………………………………...iii
Introduction……………………………………………………………………………1
Chapter One: Kempe’s Body and Spirituality………………………………………..18
Chapter Two: Imitatio Christi:
Christ’s Body and Kempe’s Spirituality……………47
Chapter Three: Kempe’s Rhetoric, Body and Authority …………………………….69
Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………95
Works Cited…………………………………………………………………………103

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