Crying in the Middle Ages Tears of History 1st Edition by Elina Gertsman 0415889855 9780415889858

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ISBN 10: 0415889855

ISBN 13: 9780415889858

Author: Elina Gertsman

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.

Crying in the Middle Ages Tears of History 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Tears and Image

1. Women Mourners in Byzantine Art, Literature, and Society
Mourning in Church Writings
Mourning in Byzantine Art
Enacting Lament
Notes

2. The Eve Fragment from Autun and the Emotionalism of Pilgrimage
The Eve Sculpture and The Lazarus Shrine
Pilgrimage and Emotion
Romanesque and Gothic
Notes

3. Weeping Women – Social Roles and Images in Fourteenth-Century Tuscany
Introduction
The Literature on Grief and Emotion in Medieval Art
Grieving in Painting
Grief and The Law
Notes

4. The Paradoxical Rhetoric of Tears – Looking at the Madrid Descent from the Cross
Fazio vs. Michelangelo: Painted vs. Shed Tears
First Tears
Fac Me Tecum Plangere
Seeing as Proof of God’s Existence
A Paradox of Reception
Notes

Part II: Tears and Religious Experience

5. A Penitent Prepares – Affect, Contrition, and Tears
Theorizing Medieval Contrition
Penance, Affect, and Pain
The Sciences of Crying and Acting
Notes

6. “He Cried and Made Others Cry” – Crying as a Sign of Pietistic Authenticity or Deception in Medieval Islamic Preaching
The Limitations of the Sources
Ascetic Tears: A Sermon on Crying for the Fear of God
The Preacher’s Tears
Provoked Tears and the Problem of Authenticity
Penitential Tears
Conclusions: Assessing the Emotionality of Tears
Notes

7. Si puose calcina a’ propi occhi – The Importance of the Gift of Tears for Thirteenth-Century Religious Women and Their Hagiographers
A Brief Historiography
Weeping Women
The Life of Umiliana De’ Cerchi and The Initial Gift of Tears
The Quicklime Episode
Sight and Tears
Notes

8. Weeping as Discourse Between Heaven and Earth – The Transformative Power of Tears in Medieval Jewish Literature
Introduction
Attachment
The Bridal Canopy
Discourse Between Heaven and Earth
Notes

Part III: Tears and Narrative

9. The Shedding of Tears in Late Anglo-Saxon England
Tears in Secular Texts: Heroic Poetry and Chronicles
Tears in Religious Texts: Christian Poetry and Homily
Notes

10. Tears and Trial – Weeping as Forensic Evidence in Piers Plowman
The Lady Meed Episode of Piers Plowman
Establishing Langland’s “Euydences”
“Thanne Put Forth Thi Reson”: Judging Meed’s Weeping
Notes

11. A Sorrowful Song – On Tears in Chrétien de Troyes’s Philomena
History and Myth
Tereus, or a Crocodile’s Tears
Pandion: A Father’s Tears
Philomena’s Weeping Hair
Progne’s Dangerous Tears
At the Window: Philomena’s Signature
Notes

12. Crying in Public and in Private – Tears and Crying in Medieval German Literature
Introduction
Enite’s Tears – A Crying Female Protagonist Emerges as the True Heroine
Sigeband’s Tears – A Crying King in a Heroic Epic. A Weak Male Ruler?
Tears as Weakness and Defense
Konrad Fleck’s Flôre and Blanscheflûr (ca. 1220–1240) – Tears as Evidence for the Sincerity of Love
Conclusion
Notes

13. Coda: Transmitting Despair by Manuscript and Print
Despair by Manuscript
Despair in Print
Notes

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