05161nam 2200781Ia 450 991046411960332120211012021858.01-283-89092-50-8122-0278-310.9783/9780812202786(CKB)3170000000046586(OCoLC)794700575(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576090(SSID)ssj0000605753(PQKBManifestationID)11433669(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000605753(PQKBWorkID)10575274(PQKB)10372844(MiAaPQ)EBC3441650(MdBmJHUP)muse11957(DE-B1597)449136(OCoLC)1013950683(OCoLC)979580416(DE-B1597)9780812202786(Au-PeEL)EBL3441650(CaPaEBR)ebr10576090(CaONFJC)MIL420342(EXLCZ)99317000000004658620090612d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAffective meditation and the invention of medieval compassion[electronic resource] /Sarah McNamerPhiladelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20101 online resource (318 p.)The Middle Ages seriesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8122-4211-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-297) and indexes.Front matter --Contents --Introduction. Intimate Scripts in the History of Emotion --PART I. The Origins of an Affective Mode --1. Compassion and the Making of a True Sponsa Christi --2. The Genealogy of a Genre --3. Franciscan Meditation Reconsidered --PART II. Performing Compassion in Late Medieval England --4. Feeling Like a Woman --5. Marian Lament and the Rise of a Vernacular Ethics --6. Kyndenesse and Resistance in the Middle English Passion Lyric --Notes --Works Cited --Index of Manuscripts --Index --AcknowledgmentsAffective meditation on the Passion was one of the most popular literary genres of the high and later Middle Ages. Proliferating in a rich variety of forms, these lyrical, impassioned, script-like texts in Latin and the vernacular had a deceptively simple goal: to teach their readers how to feel. They were thus instrumental in shaping and sustaining the wide-scale shift in medieval Christian sensibility from fear of God to compassion for the suffering Christ. Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion advances a new narrative for this broad cultural change and the meditative writings that both generated and reflected it. Sarah McNamer locates women as agents in the creation of the earliest and most influential texts in the genre, from John of Fécamp's Libellus to the Meditationes Vitae Christi, thus challenging current paradigms that cast the compassionate affective mode as Anselmian or Franciscan in origin. The early development of the genre in women's practices had a powerful and lasting legacy. With special attention to Middle English texts, including Nicholas Love's Mirror and a wide range of Passion lyrics and laments, Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion illuminates how these scripts for the performance of prayer served to construct compassion itself as an intimate and feminine emotion. To feel compassion for Christ, in the private drama of the heart that these texts stage, was to feel like a woman. This was an assumption about emotion that proved historically consequential, McNamer demonstrates, as she traces some of its legal, ethical, and social functions in late medieval England.Middle Ages series.CompassionReligious aspectsChristianityHistoryTo 1500Devotional literature, English (Middle)History and criticismDevotional literature, ItalianHistory and criticismDevotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)History and criticismEmotionsReligious aspectsChristianityHistoryTo 1500FemininityReligious aspectsChristianityHistoryTo 1500Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Devotion toEnglandHistoryTo 1500Electronic books.CompassionReligious aspectsChristianityHistoryDevotional literature, English (Middle)History and criticism.Devotional literature, ItalianHistory and criticism.Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)History and criticism.EmotionsReligious aspectsChristianityHistoryFemininityReligious aspectsChristianityHistorySorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Devotion toHistory242.0942/0902McNamer Sarah1052559MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464119603321Affective meditation and the invention of medieval compassion2483937UNINA