Telling Tears in the English Renaissance / / Marjory E. Lange.

• Superior document: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions Series ; Volume 70
• VerfasserIn: Lange, Marjory E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, [1996]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; Volume 70.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 pages)

This study examines the medical literature, sermons, and lyric poetry of the English Renaissance, exploring the understanding of tears and weeping, most particularly how interpretations of them changed over time, and how those changes affected the 'reading' of tears for those who had to live them.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Lacrimae Rerum -- "Yesterdaies teares" -- Thomas More's Last Meeting with Margaret -- Lacrimae rerum -- Chapter One - "The Brain's Thinnest Excrement": Renaissance Medicine -- Introduction -- The Physiology of Tears -- Humours-Composing the Body -- Tears-in Motion -- The Psychology of Tears -- Melancholy -- Love Melancholy -- Relieving Melancholy -- Chapter Two - "Out of my Pen No Inke but Teares": The Poetic Miscellanies -- Introduction: "Teares a delightfull thing." -- Tottels Miscellany -- Paradise of Dainty Devices -- Phoenix Nest -- Englands Helicon -- Poetical Rhapsody -- Tears in a Woman's Voice, a Rider -- Chapter Three - "To Clyme by Teares the Common Staires of Men" : Preaching Tears -- Introduction -- Tears in Funeral Sermons -- Three Royal Funerals -- Other Funerals -- Biblical Weepers -- David's Tears -- Peter's Tears -- Mary (Magdalene)'sWeeping -- CHAPTER FOUR - "And Jesus Wept": Preaching Tears and Jesus -- Introduction -- John 11:35-And Jesus Wept -- Luke 23.27-28: Weepe Not for Me, But Weepe for Yourselves -- John Donne's and Jesus' Tears -- The Sermon on "Jesus Wept" -- A Wedding and a Funeral -- CHAPTER FIVE - "We'are Taught Best by thy Teares and Thee": Donne, Herbert, Crashaw -- Introduction -- John Donne "Contraryes meet in one" -- George Herbert "Thy clay that weeps, thy dust that calls" -- Richard Crashaw "Upwards thou dost weep" -- The Weeper -- Bibliography -- Index -- Studies in the History of Christian Thought.