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OverviewIn the past few years, interest has grown in the way human emotions have been experienced, stimulated, and expressed in languages throughout history. Cultivating the Heart studies the language of emotions in religious texts in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, focusing on sermons, saints’ lives, guidebooks for religious recluses, meditations, and lyrical poetry. It offers, as well, substantial commentary on church wall paintings, providing readers with a nuanced understanding of the ways in which the affective strategies of visual resources can be mapped onto texts. This is the first book-length study of affective language in the High Middle Ages, a period which has been previously neglected in work on the history of emotions. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ayoush LazikaniPublisher: University of Wales Press Imprint: University of Wales Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9781783162611ISBN 10: 1783162619 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 15 June 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Upon a Spiritual Cross: Feeling in the Lambeth and Trinity Homilies Chapter 2: The Gnawed Hand: Presence and Absence of Feeling in the Early South English Legendaries Chapter 3: Co-feeling: Compassion in Ancrene Wisse and the Wooing Group Chapter 4: Call Me Bitter: Feeling and Sensing in Passion Lyrics ConclusionReviewsThis volume demonstrates how early Middle English religious writings and paintings teach their readers and viewers both to thwart and to embrace affective pain--that is, the interconnected stirrings of love, compassion, and sorrow inspired by the redemptive suffering of Christ and the Saints. Framed authoritatively within the latest critical discussion of the history of emotions and affective literacies, Lazikani's sensitive readings of these sometimes alienating medieval works recover their emotional intensity and illuminate the function of the extreme suffering they evoke. --Elizabeth Robertson, University of Glasgow This volume demonstrates how early Middle English religious writings and paintings teach their readers and viewers both to thwart and to embrace affective pain that is, the interconnected stirrings of love, compassion, and sorrow inspired by the redemptive suffering of Christ and the Saints. Framed authoritatively within the latest critical discussion of the history of emotions and affective literacies, Lazikani s sensitive readings of these sometimes alienating medieval works recover their emotional intensity and illuminate the function of the extreme suffering they evoke. --Elizabeth Robertson, University of Glasgow Author InformationScholars and students in medieval studies and related disciplines. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |