Sacred and profane, public and private, emotive and ritualistic,
internal and embodied, medieval weeping served as a culturally
charged prism for a host of social, visual, cognitive, and
linguistic performances. The essays in this interdisciplinary book
consider the role of weeping in medieval visual, theological, and
literary discourses, and examine it in relation to viewership,
gender, piety, transmission, and social, visual, and linguistic
performances. Crying in the Middle Ages 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. Gertsman brings together essays that
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. In acknowledging the porous nature of visual and verbal
evidence, this collection foregrounds the necessity to read
language, image, and experience together in order to envision the
complex notions of medieval crying.
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