Affective meditation and the invention of medieval compassion
By: Sarah McNamer.
Series: The Middle Ages series
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780812242119
Subjects: Jesus Christ -- Passion -- Prayers and devotions -- History and criticism; Devotional literature, English (Middle) -- History and criticism; Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Devotion to -- England -- History -- To 1500; Compassion -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- To 1500; Emotions -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- To 1500; Femininity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- To 1500; England -- Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Intimate scripts in the history of emotion; title: Compassion and the making of a true Sponsa Christi; title: The genealogy of a genre; title: Franciscan meditation reconsidered; title: Feeling like a woman; title: Marian lament and the rise of a vernacular ethics; title: Kyndenesse and resistance in the Middle English passion lyric.