| Crying in the Middle Ages: Tears of History Contributor(s): Gertsman, Elina (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415889855 ISBN-13: 9780415889858 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Emotions - History | Europe - Medieval - Literary Criticism | Medieval |
| Dewey: 152.4 |
| LCCN: 2011039338 |
| Series: Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.3" W x 9.2" (1.30 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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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