Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion

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Abstract

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.

Topics & Keywords

Medieval Literature and History Reformation and Early Modern Christianity Early Modern Women Writers

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Gender equality

Publication Details

Published in: University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks

DOI: 10.9783/9780812202786

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