Research Catalog

Title

Crying in the Middle Ages : tears of history / edited by Elina Gertsman.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Gertsman, Elina
• International Congress on Medieval Studies (44th : 2009 : Kalamazoo, Mich.)

Description

xxx, 320 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Sacred and profane, public and private, emotive and ritualistic, internal and embodied, medieval weeping served as a culturally charged prism for a host of social, visual, cognitive, and linguistic performances. Crying in the Middle Ages addresses the place of tears in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic cultural discourses, providing a key resource for scholars interested in exploring medieval notions of emotion, gesture, and sensory experience in a variety of cultural contexts. Gertsman brings together essays that establish a series of conversations with one another, foregrounding essential questions about the different ways that crying was seen, heard, perceived, expressed, and transmitted throughout the Middle Ages. In acknowledging the porous nature of visual and verbal evidence, this collection foregrounds the necessity to read language, image, and experience together in order to envision the complex notions of medieval crying"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Routledge studies in medieval religion and culture ; v. 10

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in medieval religion and culture ; 10.

Alternative Title

Crying image .

Subject

• ART / History / Medieval
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
• HISTORY / Medieval
• Crying
• Crying > Cross-cultural studies
• Emotions (Philosophy) > History > Early works to 1800
• Middle Ages > Historiography

Note

• "The idea for this book emerged from the Crying image : word, spectator, reader session ... at the 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo"--Acknowledgments.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-299) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

'Going they went and wept' : tears in medieval discourse / Elina Gertsman -- Considerations of weeping and sincerity in the Middle Ages / Lyn A. Blanchfield -- Women mourners in Byzantine art, literature, and society / Henry Maguire -- The Eve fragment from Autun and the emotionalism of pilgrimage / Marian Bleeke -- Weeping women : social roles and images in 14th-century Tuscany / Judith Steinhoff -- The paradoxical rhetoric of tears : looking at the Madrid Descent from the Cross / Felix Thürlemann / A penitent prepares : affect, contrition, and tears / Christopher Swift / 'He cried and made others cry' : crying as a sign of pietistic authenticity or deception in medieval Islamic preaching / Linda G. Jones -- Si puose calcina a' propi occhi : the importance of the gift of tears for thirteenth-century religious women and their hagiographers / Kimberley-Joy Knight -- Weeping as discourse between heaven and earth : the transformative power of tears in medieval Jewish literature / Rachel S. Mikva -- The shedding of tears in late Anglo-Saxon England / Tracey-Anne Cooper -- Tears and trial : weeping as forensic evidence in Piers Plowman / Katherine O'Sullivan -- A sorrowful song : on tears in Chrétien de Troyes's Philomena / Irit Rothn Kleiman -- Crying in public and in private : tears and crying in medieval German literature / Albrecht Classen -- Transmitting despair by manuscript and print / Barbara H. Rosenwein.

ISBN

9780415889858 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2011039338

OCLC

773257988

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library