Crying in the Middle Ages

Tears of History
Herausgeber: Gertsman, Elina

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. ¿

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 661g
• ISBN-13: 9780415889858
• ISBN-10: 0415889855
• Artikelnr.: 31798641

Autorenporträt

Elina Gertsman is Assistant Professor of Art History and Art at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance (2010), and the editor of Visualizing Medieval Performance: Perspectives, Histories, Contexts (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Preface: 'Going They Went and Wept': Tears in Medieval Discourse,
Elina Gertsman Introduction: Considerations of Weeping and Sincerity in the
Middle Ages, Lyn A. Blanchfield Part I: Tears and Image 1: Women Mourners
in Byzantine Art, Literature, and Society, Henry Maguire 2: The Eve
Fragment from Autun and the Emotionalism of Pilgrimage, Marian Bleeke 3:
Weeping Women: Social Roles and Images in 14th century Tuscany, Judith
Steinhoff 4: The Paradoxical Rhetoric of Tears: Looking at the Madrid
Descent from the Cross, Felix Thürlemann Part II: Tears and Religious
Experience 5: A Penitent Prepares: Affect, Contrition, and Tears,
Christopher Swift 6: He Cried and Made Others Cry': Crying as a Sign of
Pietistic Authenticity or Deception in Medieval Islamic Preaching, Linda G.
Jones 7: Si puose calcina a' propi occhi: The Importance of the Gift of
Tears for Thirteenth-Century Religious Women and their Hagiographers,
Kimberley-Joy Knight 8: Weeping as Discourse Between Heaven and Earth: The
Transformative Power of Tears in Medieval Jewish Literature, Rachel S.
Mikva Part III: Tears and Narrative 9: The Shedding of Tears in Late
Anglo-Saxon England, Tracey-Ann Cooper 10: Tears and Trial: Weeping as
Forensic Evidence in Piers Plowman, Katherine O'Sullivan 11: A Sorrowful
Song: On Tears in Chrétien de Troyes's Philomena, Irit Kleiman 12: Crying
in Public and in Private: Tears and Crying in Medieval German Literature,
Albrecht Classen Conclusion: Transmitting Despair by Manuscript and Print,
Barbara H. Rosenwein