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Affective meditation and the invention of medieval compassion [[electronic resource] /] / Sarah McNamer



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Autore: McNamer Sarah Visualizza persona
Titolo: Affective meditation and the invention of medieval compassion [[electronic resource] /] / Sarah McNamer Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (318 p.)
Disciplina: 242.0942/0902
Soggetto topico: Compassion - Religious aspects - Christianity - History - To 1500
Devotional literature, English (Middle) - History and criticism
Devotional literature, Italian - History and criticism
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) - History and criticism
Emotions - Religious aspects - Christianity - History - To 1500
Femininity - Religious aspects - Christianity - History - To 1500
Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Devotion to - England - History - To 1500
Soggetto non controllato: Literature
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Religion
Classificazione: 11.52
18.05
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-297) and indexes.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Acknowledgments
Sommario/riassunto: Affective 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.
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ISBN: 1-283-89092-5
0-8122-0278-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910788374003321
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Serie: Middle Ages series.