{"id":5641,"date":"2022-07-12T15:21:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T12:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/?page_id=5641"},"modified":"2026-05-31T17:22:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T14:22:40","slug":"2021-2-dresvina","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/volumina\/2021-2\/2021-2-dresvina\/","title":{"rendered":"2021-2-Dresvina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Dresvina J. <\/em>Medieval memes, misericords and Margery Kempe [Digital Resource] \/\/ Vox medii aevi. 2021. Vol. 2(9). P. 117\u2013146. URL: <a href=\"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/2021-2-dresvina\/\">https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/2021-2-dresvina\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-3a53c32f-dbbf-4f09-8efb-32d95391299c\">DOI: 10.24412\/2587-6619-2021-2-117-146<\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-f36c3769-c7d2-4a97-b403-a8a9c97ab39c\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/vma_2021_2_dresvina.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/vma_2021_2_dresvina.pdf\">&gt; Download the article<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-b4396516-c90e-4414-a368-965fa5118449\">Juliana Dresvina<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>PhD in History, Research Associate, Faculty of History, University of Oxford<br><a href=\"mailto:juliana.dresvina@history.ox.ac.uk\">juliana.dresvina@history.ox.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"medieval-memes-misericords-and-margery-kempe\">Medieval memes, misericords and Margery Kempe<\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The article interprets medieval mercy seats (misericords) as collections of memes (memeplexes), rooted in pre-modern oral culture, allowing for a cognitive shortcut in an otherwise long and obscure discussion of the origins of many misericords\u2019 exact iconography. It then proceeds to examine the use of such memes in \u2018The Book of Margery Kempe\u2019 (c. 1438) as a means for economic storytelling and self-fashioning.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Keywords<\/em>: animals; fools; Margery Kempe; memetics; misericords; scatology; sexual imagery; storytelling.<\/p>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-d131d1db-d113-4c77-88f9-81aedbba238e\">FOR CITATION<br><em>Dresvina J.<\/em> Medieval memes, misericords and Margery Kempe [Digital Resource] \/\/ Vox medii aevi. 2021. Vol. 2(9). P. 117\u2013146. URL: <a href=\"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/2021-2-dresvina\/\">https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/2021-2-dresvina\/<\/a><\/h5>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":5589,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-5641","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"no-featured-image-padding"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5641"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53136,"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5641\/revisions\/53136"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}