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. 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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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A great book and analysis of why Kashmir is so coveted ...By Darcey WunkerA great book and analysis of why Kashmir is so coveted - and the media surrounding it. The language here is not for the faint of heart. however; it is more analytical and arguably unapproachable for less academically inclined readers. Traveling through the Kashmir Valley as I read this book. it has been helpful in understanding how and why things are presented in particular ways. Note that the Kindle version is poorly formatted (what are presumably footnotes appear as solid numbers. unlinkable. and detract from the text).
