Crying in the Middle Ages : tears of history

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Crying in the Middle Ages : tears of history / ed. by Elina Gertsman

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Gertsman, Elina (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York [u.a.] : Routledge, 2012
Edition:	1. publ.
Series:	Routledge studies in medieval religion and culture 10
Subjects:	Weinen Mittelalter Geschichtsschreibung Künste Kultur Gesellschaft Weinen <Motiv> Geschichte 500-1500 Aufsatzsammlung
Contents/pieces:	12 records
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. A Sorrowful Song : on Tears in Chrétien de Troyes's 'Philomena'

2. 'Si puose calcina a' propi occhi' : the Importance of the Gift of Tears for Thirteenth-Century Religious Women and their Hagiographers

3. "He Cried and made Others Cry" : crying as a Sign of Pietistic Authenticity or Deception in Medieval Islamic Preaching

4. A Penitent Prepares : Affect, Contrition, and Tears

5. The Shedding of tears in Late Anglo-Saxon England

6. Women Mourners in Byzantine Art, Literature, and Society

7. The Eve Fragment from Autun and the Emotionalism of Pilgrimage

8. Weeping as Discourse between Heaven and Earth : the Transformative Power of Tears in Medival Jewish Literature

9. Weeping Women : Social Roles and Images in Fourteenth-Century Tuscany

10. Crying in Public and in Private : Tears and Crying in Medieval German Literature

11. The Paradoxical Rhetoric of Tears : looking at the Madrid 'Descent from the Cross'

12. Tears and trial : Weeping as Forensic Evidence in 'Piers Plowman'