ABSTRACT
Margery Kempe would adopt that stance in her Book as well. Bride’s writings would in turn influence, with their images of the Brides of Christ and Christ as the Ploughman, important English texts such as Pearl and Piers Plowman. Bride’s position in Sweden and abroad was one of great status. Bride’s life was marked by her visions, which prompted her pilgrimages and her writings, and which granted her even greater access to power than she already had as a Swedish noblewoman. Bride left Sweden in 1349, reaching Rome in 1350 for its Jubilee year. She would be joined there by three of her children, Catherine, Birger, and Charles. Despite the power and wealth of the royal households of Sweden and Naples with which she was associated, Bride and her household encountered financial difficulties. Bride, when married to Ulf, had traveled with him first to Trondheim in Norway, then to Compostela in Spain.
