Title: Telling tears in the English Renaissance
First published: 1996
Description: Tears and weeping are, at once, human universals and socially-constrained phenomena. This volume explores the interface between those two viewpoints by examining medical literature, sermons, and lyric poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to see how dominant paradigms regarded who could, who must, and who must not weep. These paradigms shifted in some cases radically, during these centuries.

Without a clear understanding of how the Renaissance 'read' tears, it is difficult to avoid using our own preconceptions - often quite different and very misleading. There are five chapters; one on medical and scientific material, two on sermons, and two on different types of lyric.
Subjects: Christian literature, English, Christianity, Crying, Crying in literature, English Christian literature, English literature, History and criticism, History of doctrines, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Crying, Renaissance, Tears in literature, Histoire des doctrines, Weinen, Aspect religieux, Literatur, Dans la littérature, Predigt, Christliche Literatur, Christelijke literatuur, Littérature anglaise, Literature, Englisch, Early modern, Huilen, Histoire et critique, Engels, Literature: history & criticism, Christianisme, Thèmes, motifs, Pleurs, English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700, Christian literature, Renaissance, england
Places: England
Time periods: 16th century, 17th century, Early modern, 1500-1700
LC classification: PR428.C78 T45 1996