Affective meditation and the invention of medieval compassion / Sarah McNamer.

Affective meditation and the invention of medieval compassion / Sarah McNamer.

This book offers a new history of a major medieval genre, affective meditations on the Passion. It argues that women were instrumental in the creation of this genre, and it illuminates how these scripts for the performance of prayer served to construct compassion itself as an intimate and feminine e...

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Main Author: McNamer, Sarah
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010.
Series:Middle Ages series.
Subjects:
Jesus Christ > Passion > Prayers and devotions > History and criticism.
Femininity > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > To 1500.
Emotions > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > To 1500.
Compassion > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > To 1500.
Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Devotion to > England > History > To 1500.
Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) > History and criticism.
Devotional literature, Italian > History and criticism.
Devotional literature, English (Middle) > History and criticism.
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