Crying in the Middle Ages : tears of history /: tears of history. (2012)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Crying in the Middle Ages : tears of history /: tears of history. (2012)
- Main Title:
- Crying in the Middle Ages : tears of history
- Further Information:
- Note: [edited by] Elina Gertsman.
- Other Names:
- Gertsman, Elina
- 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-Ann 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 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.
- Publisher Details:
- Place of publication not identified : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (350 pages), (29 illustrations)
- Subjects:
- 152.4
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
Crying
Crying -- Cross-cultural studies
Emotions (Philosophy) -- History -- Early works to 1800
Middle Ages -- Historiography
HISTORY / Medieval
ART / History / Medieval - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781136664014
1136664017 - Access Rights:
- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
- Access Usage:
- Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
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- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.23137
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- 02_090.xml