LEADER 05282nam 2200841Ia 450 001 9910814036803321 005 20240418023130.0 010 $a1-283-89092-5 010 $a0-8122-0278-3 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202786 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046586 035 $a(OCoLC)794700575 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576090 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000605753 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11433669 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000605753 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10575274 035 $a(PQKB)10372844 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse11957 035 $a(DE-B1597)449136 035 $a(OCoLC)1013950683 035 $a(OCoLC)979580416 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202786 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441650 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576090 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420342 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441650 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046586 100 $a20090612d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAffective meditation and the invention of medieval compassion /$fSarah McNamer 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (318 p.) 225 1 $aThe Middle Ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-4211-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [271]-297) and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction. Intimate Scripts in the History of Emotion --$tPART I. The Origins of an Affective Mode --$t1. Compassion and the Making of a True Sponsa Christi --$t2. The Genealogy of a Genre --$t3. Franciscan Meditation Reconsidered --$tPART II. Performing Compassion in Late Medieval England --$t4. Feeling Like a Woman --$t5. Marian Lament and the Rise of a Vernacular Ethics --$t6. Kyndenesse and Resistance in the Middle English Passion Lyric --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex of Manuscripts --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aAffective meditation on the Passion was one of the most popular literary genres of the high and later Middle Ages. Proliferating in a rich variety of forms, these lyrical, impassioned, script-like texts in Latin and the vernacular had a deceptively simple goal: to teach their readers how to feel. They were thus instrumental in shaping and sustaining the wide-scale shift in medieval Christian sensibility from fear of God to compassion for the suffering Christ. Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion advances a new narrative for this broad cultural change and the meditative writings that both generated and reflected it. Sarah McNamer locates women as agents in the creation of the earliest and most influential texts in the genre, from John of Fécamp's Libellus to the Meditationes Vitae Christi, thus challenging current paradigms that cast the compassionate affective mode as Anselmian or Franciscan in origin. The early development of the genre in women's practices had a powerful and lasting legacy. With special attention to Middle English texts, including Nicholas Love's Mirror and a wide range of Passion lyrics and laments, Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion illuminates how these scripts for the performance of prayer served to construct compassion itself as an intimate and feminine emotion. To feel compassion for Christ, in the private drama of the heart that these texts stage, was to feel like a woman. This was an assumption about emotion that proved historically consequential, McNamer demonstrates, as she traces some of its legal, ethical, and social functions in late medieval England. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aCompassion$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aDevotional literature, English (Middle)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDevotional literature, Italian$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDevotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEmotions$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aFemininity$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aSorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Devotion to$zEngland$xHistory$yTo 1500 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 610 $aReligion. 615 0$aCompassion$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory 615 0$aDevotional literature, English (Middle)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDevotional literature, Italian$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDevotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEmotions$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory 615 0$aFemininity$xReligious aspects$xChristianity$xHistory 615 0$aSorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Devotion to$xHistory 676 $a242.0942/0902 686 $a11.52$2bcl 686 $a18.05$2bcl 700 $aMcNamer$b Sarah$01647551 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814036803321 996 $aAffective meditation and the invention of medieval compassion$93995177 997 $aUNINA