Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion【電子書籍】[ Sarah McNamer ]
【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める!】<p>Affective meditation on the Passion was one of the most popular literary genres of the high and later Middle Ages. Proliferating in a rich variety of forms, these lyrical, impassioned, script-like texts in Latin and the vernacular had a deceptively simple goal: to teach their readers how to feel. They were thus instrumental in shaping and sustaining the wide-scale shift in medieval Christian sensibility from fear of God to compassion for the suffering Christ.</p> <p><em>Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion</em> advances a new narrative for this broad cultural change and the meditative writings that both generated and reflected it. Sarah McNamer locates women as agents in the creation of the earliest and most influential texts in the genre, from John of F?camp's <em>Libellus</em> to the <em>Meditationes Vitae Christi</em>, thus challenging current paradigms that cast the compassionat...