Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion /

Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion / / Sarah McNamer.

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Affective meditation on the Passion was one of the most popular literary genres of the high and later Middle Ages. Proliferating in a rich variety of forms, these lyrical, impassioned, script-like texts in Latin and the vernacular had a deceptively simple goal: to teach their readers how to feel. Th...

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McNamer, Sarah,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2010
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:The Middle Ages Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 10 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Intimate Scripts in the History of Emotion
  • PART I. The Origins of an Affective Mode
  • 1. Compassion and the Making of a True Sponsa Christi
  • 2. The Genealogy of a Genre
  • 3. Franciscan Meditation Reconsidered
  • PART II. Performing Compassion in Late Medieval England
  • 4. Feeling Like a Woman
  • 5. Marian Lament and the Rise of a Vernacular Ethics
  • 6. Kyndenesse and Resistance in the Middle English Passion Lyric
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index of Manuscripts
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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