Crying in the Middle Ages: Tears of History

Fueled by the resurgence of interest in the history of emotions, this interdisciplinary book gathers together essays that consider the role of weeping in medieval visual, theological, and literary discourses, and explore it in relation to viewership, gender, piety, transmission, and social, visual, and linguistic performances. Gertsman addresses the place of tears in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic cultural discourses, providing a key resource for scholars interested in exploring medieval notions of emotion, gesture, and sensory experience in a variety of cultural contexts. Diverse yet cohesive, the essays establish a series of conversations with one another, foregrounding essential questions about the different ways that crying was seen, heard, perceived, expressed, and transmitted throughout the Middle Ages.

Elina Gertsman is Assistant Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University, USA.

List of Figures	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: "Going They Went and Wept": Tears in Medieval Discourse	p. xi
Prolegomenon: Considerations of Weeping and Sincerity in the Middle Ages	p. xxi
Tears and Image
Women Mourners in Byzantine Art, Literature, and Society	p. 3
The Eve Fragment from Autun and the Emotionalism of Pilgrimage	p. 16
Weeping Women: Social Roles and Images in Fourteenth-Century Tuscany	p. 35
The Paradoxical Rhetoric of Tears: Looking at the Madrid Descent from the Cross	p. 53
Tears and Religious Experience
A Penitent Prepares: Affect, Contrition, and Tears	p. 79
"He Cried and Made Others Cry": Crying as a Sign of Pietistic Authenticity or Deception in Medieval Islamic Preaching	p. 102
Si puose calcina a' propi occhi: The Importance of the Gift of Tears for Thirteenth-Century Religious Women and their Hagiographers	p. 136
Weeping as Discourse between Heaven and Earth: The Transformative Power of Tears in Medieval Jewish Literature	p. 156
Tears and Narrative
The Shedding of Tears in Late Anglo-Saxon England	p. 175
Tears and Trial: Weeping as Forensic Evidence in Piers Plowman	p. 193
A Sorrowful Song: On Tears in Chrétien de Troyes's Philomena	p. 208
Crying in Public and in Private: Tears and Crying in Medieval German Literature	p. 230
CODA: Transmitting Despair by Manuscript and Print	p. 249
Bibliography	p. 267
Contributors	p. 301
Index	p. 305
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