Crying in the Middle Ages: Tears of History

352 Pages·2012·3.975 MB·English

by  Elina Gertsman (ed.)

Crying in the Middle Ages
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Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
EDITED BY GEORGE FERZOCO, University of Leicester
CAROLYN MUESSIG, University of Bristol
1 Gender and Holiness 10 Crying in the Middle Ages
Men, Women and Saints in Late Tears of History
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Crying in the Middle Ages
Tears of History
Edited by Elina Gertsman
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Contents
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3 Weeping Women: Social Roles and Images in
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JUDITH STEINHOFF
4 The Paradoxical Rhetoric of Tears: Looking at the Madrid
Descent from the Cross 53
FELIX THÜRLEMANN
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PART II
Tears and Religious Experience
5 A Penitent Prepares: Affect, Contrition, and Tears 79
CHRISTOPHER SWIFT
6 “He Cried and Made Others Cry”: Crying as a Sign of Pietistic
Authenticity or Deception in Medieval Islamic Preaching 102
LINDA G. JONES
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Transmitting Despair by Manuscript and Print 249
BARBARA H. ROSENWEIN
Bibliography 267
Contributors 301
Index 305
Figures
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3.2 Taddeo Gaddi, The Entombment of Christ with Monna
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3.3 Donors (detail of Figure 3.1), Giottino, Lamentation. 44
3.4 Church of San Remigio, Florence (interior). 45
4.1 Descent from the Cross, ca. 1430. Madrid, Prado
(originally: Leuven, Church of Our Lady Outside the Walls). 55
4.2 Nicodemus: portrait of the donor (detail of Figure 4.1,
Descent from the Cross). 59
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4.3 Robert Campin, Triptych with the Entombment
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4.4 Mourning angel (detail of Figure 4.3, Triptych with
the Entombment). 61
4.5 Robert Campin, The Bearing of the Body of Christ to the
Tomb (preliminary drawing for the center panel of a lost
altarpiece), ca. 1425. 63
4.6 Christ’s and Mary’s hands (detail of Figure 4.1, Descent
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4.7 Polyptych of the Descent from the Cross, originally:
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