Crying in the Middle Ages

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Selected Contents: Introduction:Going They Went and Wept: Tears in Medieval Discourse Elina Gertsman Prolegomenon: Considerations of Weeping and Sincerity in the Middle Ages Lyn A. Blanchfield Part 1: Tears and Image 1. Women Mourners in Byzantine Art, Literature, and Society Henry Maguire 2. The Eve Fragment from Autun and the Emotionalism of Pilgrimage Marian Bleeke 3. Weeping Women: Social Roles and Images in Fourteenth-Century Tuscany Judith Steinhoff 4. The Paradoxical Rhetoric of Tears: Looking at the Madrid Descent From the Cross Felix Thurlemann Part 2: Tears and Religious Experience 5. A Penitent Prepares: Affect, Contrition, and Tears Christopher Swift 6. He Cried and Made Others Cry: Crying as a Sign of Pietistic Authenticity or Deception in Medieval Islamic Preaching Linda G. Jones 7. Si Puose Calcina A' Propi Occhi: The Importance of the Gift of Tears for Thirteenth-Century Religious Women and Their Hagiographers Kimberley-Joy Knight 8. Weeping as Discourse between Heaven and Earth: The Transformative Power of Tears in Medieval Jewish Literature Rachel S. Mikva Part 3: Tears And Narrative 9. The Shedding of Tears in Late Anglo-Saxon England Tracey-Anne Cooper 10. Tears and Trial: Weeping as Forensic Evidence in Piers Plowman Katherine K. O'Sullivan 11. A Sorrowful Song: On Tears in Chretien De Troyes's Philomena Irit Ruth Kleiman 12. Crying in Public and in Private: Tears and Crying in Medieval German Literature Albrecht Classen Coda: Transmitting Despair by Manuscript and Print Barbara H. Rosenwein

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