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Affective meditation and the invention of medieval compassion

Part of the The Middle Ages series series
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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 emotion.

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Product Details
0812202783 / 9780812202786
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
01/01/2010
English
307 pages
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