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Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion

By: Sarah McNamer

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Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion

By: Sarah McNamer

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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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812202783

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9780812202786

Christ's Body

Identity, Culture and Society in Late Medieval Writings

By: Sarah Beckwith

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Christ's Body

Identity, Culture and Society in Late Medieval Writings

By: Sarah Beckwith

At the very heart of Christian doctrine and late medieval practice was the image of the crucified Christ. Sarah Beckwith examines the social meaning of this image across a range of key devotional English texts, using insights from anthropology and cultural studies. The image of the crucified Christ, she argues, acted as a place where the tensions between the sacred and the profane, the individual and the collective, were played out. The medieval obsession with the contours of Christ's body functioned to challenge and transform social and political relations. A fascinating and challenging book of interest not only to students of medieval literature, but also to cultural historians and women's studies specialists.

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Routledge

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1134761562

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9781134761562

Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman

By: Sarah Wood

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Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman

By: Sarah Wood

By showing how Langland transformed Conscience as he composed the A, B and C texts of Piers Plowman, Sarah Wood offers a new approach to reading the serial versions of the poem. While the three versions have customarily been read in parallel-text formats, she demonstrates that Langland's revisions are newly comprehensible if read in sequence.

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Oxford University Press

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0199653763

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Book's by Sarah Ogilvie-Thomson

Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion

Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion

Christ's Body

Christ's Body

Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman

Conscience and the Composition of Piers Plowman

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