Affective Meditation And The Invention Of Medieval Compassion
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Affective Meditation And The Invention Of Medieval Compassion
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Author : Sarah McNamer
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2011-07-07
Affective Meditation And The Invention Of Medieval Compassion written by Sarah McNamer and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-07 with History categories.
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.
Affective And Emotional Economies In Medieval And Early Modern Europe
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Author : Andreea Marculescu
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-11-05
Affective And Emotional Economies In Medieval And Early Modern Europe written by Andreea Marculescu and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-05 with History categories.
This book analyzes how acts of feeling at a discursive, somatic, and rhetorical level were theorized and practiced in multiple medieval and early-modern sources (literary, medical, theological, and archival). It covers a large chronological and geographical span from eleventh-century France, to fifteenth-century Iberia and England, and ending with seventeenth-century Jesuit meditative literature. Essays in this book explore how particular emotional norms belonging to different socio-cultural communities (courtly, academic, urban elites) were subverted or re-shaped; engage with the study of emotions as sudden, but impactful, bursts of sensory experience and feelings; and analyze how emotions are filtered and negotiated through the prism of literary texts and the socio-political status of their authors.
Pyschedelic Medieval Blood
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Author : Rachael Lee
language : en
Publisher: The Museum of Hidden Histories LTD
Release Date : 2020-10-22
Pyschedelic Medieval Blood written by Rachael Lee and has been published by The Museum of Hidden Histories LTD this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-22 with History categories.
Women through history have always bled and this was always viewed as dirty, contaminated and something that should be kept in private. This ideology is still prevalent today, with social media banning images of female bleeding as not ‘part of the social community’ and the capitalisation upon women’s bodies with the #tampontax meaning it financially costs to be a woman. Christ’s bleeding body was the blue print for medieval society, however, female blood and female bleeding is rarely explored. In the later Middle Ages, we witness a rise in medieval female mystics who drew upon parallels with Christ’s bleeding body and concluding that to purge blood means simply to love. This is evidenced in Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love and Margery Kempe’s The Book of Margery Kempe. Psychedelic Medieval Blood provides an introduction of how blood representations in the later Middle Ages in England was considered and understood by using medieval medical texts, theology and the devotional literature of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe. We need to expose and normalise this hidden history so that we can learn to respect and support the long suffering female body. This book seeks to introduce and challenge how we consider female blood and asks the question, can we learn from the medieval mystical approaches towards female blood and implement this positivity into our modern attitudes? Cover artist Gareth John Day Editor Jon Lee Author Rachael Lee
Sacred Fictions Of Medieval France
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Author : Maureen Barry McCann Boulton
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2015
Sacred Fictions Of Medieval France written by Maureen Barry McCann Boulton and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Literary Criticism categories.
A study of the immensely popular "lives" of Christ and the Virgin in medieval France.
Emotion And The History Of Rhetoric In The Middle Ages
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Author : Rita Copeland
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021
Emotion And The History Of Rhetoric In The Middle Ages written by Rita Copeland and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with History categories.
Presents a history of the ways in which authors of the Middle Ages mobilized the force of emotion in their rhetorical writings, and explores the changes that the role of emotion in rhetorical theory underwent during this period in relation to means of textual transmission and conditions of rhetorical teaching.
Julian Of Norwich And The Problem Of Evil
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Author : Richard Norton
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-01-01
Julian Of Norwich And The Problem Of Evil written by Richard Norton and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-01 with Religion categories.
Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love grapples with the same fundamental question that has vexed philosophers and theologians since the advent of monotheistic religion, and continues as a barrier to belief for many today. Namely, if God is so good, how can natural disaster, genocide, trauma - and my present suffering - occur? Historically, there have been two apparently very different approaches to the problem: the pastoral, or practical, on the one hand and the systematic on the other. Richard Norton, however, suggests that these two lines of thought may not be as separate as they seem, and may indeed be dependent on one another for their cohesion. Drawing on Julian’s medieval experience of personal and population-wide suffering, alongside that of more recent theologians such as Dorothy Solle and Jürgen Moltmann, Norton constructs a compassionate model of theodicy that can be of use to both pastoral and systematic theologians. Throughout, he remains sensitive to the raw atrocity of evil, while preserving a vision of God as the one who ensures that all shall be well.
Christian Compassion
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Author : Monty L. Lynn
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2021-06-17
Christian Compassion written by Monty L. Lynn and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-17 with Religion categories.
Although not always unswervingly, from antiquity until today, Christians have engaged in charity. As settings changed, compassion evolved, laying in place an ongoing mosaic of Christian ideas and institutions surrounding care. From the antique and medieval to the modern and contemporary, each age offers unique actors and insights into how compassion is viewed and achieved. We consider repeating motifs and novel appearances in the arc of Christian compassion which enlighten and inspire. Encountered on the journey are the formation and sacrifice of ancient Christians; an emphasis on virtues taught through sparing and sharing; the nascent social welfare of the Byzantine church; the sacralization and mobilization of a medieval church; innovative ideas from reformers who advance the role of the state; and modern movements in justice, peace, humanitarianism, mutual aid, and community development.
Middle English Devotional Compilations
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Author : Diana Denissen
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2019-10-15
Middle English Devotional Compilations written by Diana Denissen and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-15 with History categories.
The book offers a new perspective on late medieval compiling activity. Additionally, it offers a more nuanced perspective on late medieval religious culture in England. Lastly, it examines three major, but understudied Middle English texts in depth: the Pore Caitif, The Tretyse of Love and A Talkyng of the Love of God.
The Renaissance Of Feeling
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Author : Kirk Essary
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2024-01-11
The Renaissance Of Feeling written by Kirk Essary and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-11 with History categories.
Offering a re-reading of Erasmus's works, this book shows that emotion and affectivity were central to his writings. It argues that Erasmus's conception of emotion was highly complex and richly diverse by tracing how the Dutch humanist writes about emotion not only from different perspectives-theological, philosophical, literary, rhetorical, medical-but also in different genres. In doing so, this book suggests, Erasmus provided a distinctive, if not unique, Christian humanist emotional style. Demonstrating that Erasmus consulted multiple intellectual traditions and previous works in his thoughts on affectivity, The Renaissance of Feeling sheds light on how understanding emotions in late medieval and early modern Europe was a multi-disciplinary affair for humanist scholars. It argues that the rediscovery and proliferation ancient texts during the so-called renaissance resulted in shifting perspectives on how emotions were described and understood, and on their significance for Christian thought and practice. The book shows how the very availability of source material, coupled with humanists' eagerness to engage with multiple intellectual traditions gave rise to new understandings of feeling in the 16th century. Essary shows how Erasmus provides the clearest example of such an intellectual inheritance by examining his writings about emotion across much of his vast corpus, including literary and rhetorical works, theological treatises, textual commentaries, religious disputations, and letters. Considering the rich and diverse ways that Erasmus wrote about emotions and affectivity, this book provides a new lens to study his works and sheds light on how emotions were understood in early modern Europe.
Caring For The Living Soul
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Author : Naama Cohen-Hanegbi
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-05-08
Caring For The Living Soul written by Naama Cohen-Hanegbi and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-08 with History categories.
Caring for the Living Soul identifies the fundamental role emotions played in the development of learned medicine and in the formation of the social role of the "physicians of the body" in the western Mediterranean between 1200 and 1500. The book explores theoretical debates and practical advice concerning the treatment of the "accidentia anime" in diverse medical sources. Contextualizing this literature within the developments in natural philosophy and pastoral theology during the period, and alongside local and social contexts of medical practice, emotions are revealed to have been a malleable topic through which change and innovation in the field of medicine transpired. Bringing together a wide range of untapped sources and creating connections between emotions, religious authorities, and medical practitioners, this study sheds light on the centrality of the discourses of emotions to the formation of the social fabric.