Crying in the Middle Ages (Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415744199 ISBN 13: 9780415744195

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Elina Gertsman is Assistant Professor of Art History and Art at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance (2010), and the editor of Visualizing Medieval Performance: Perspectives, Histories, Contexts (2008).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415744199
• ISBN 13: 9780415744195
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 350
• Editor: Gertsman Elina