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Author McNamer, Sarah

Title Affective meditation and the invention of medieval compassion / Sarah McNamer
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 309 pages) : illustrations
Series Middle Ages series.
Contents Intimate scripts in the history of emotion -- Compassion and the making of a true Sponsa Christi -- The genealogy of a genre -- Franciscan meditation reconsidered -- Feeling like a woman -- Marian lament and the rise of a vernacular ethics -- Kyndenesse and resistance in the Middle English passion lyric
Summary This book offers a new history of a major medieval genre, affective meditations on the Passion. It argues that women were instrumental in the creation of this genre, and it illuminates how these scripts for the performance of prayer served to construct compassion itself as an intimate and feminine emotion
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-297) and indexes
Notes In English
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Subject Jesus Christ -- Passion -- Prayers and devotions -- History and criticism
SUBJECT Jesus Christ -- Passion -- Prayers and devotions -- History and criticism
Jesus Christ fast
Subject Femininity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- To 1500
Emotions -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- To 1500
Compassion -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- To 1500
Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Devotion to -- England -- History -- To 1500
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- History and criticism
Devotional literature, Italian -- History and criticism
Devotional literature, English (Middle) -- History and criticism
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Compassion -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Devotional literature, English (Middle)
Devotional literature, Italian
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Emotions -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Femininity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Devotion to
England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812202786
0812202783
1283890925
9781283890922