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Cultivating the heart : feeling and emotion in twelfth- and thirteenth-century religious texts / A. S. Lazikani.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lazikani, Ayoush Sarmada, 1987- author.
- Series:
- Religion & culture in the Middle Ages.
- Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian literature, English--History and criticism.
- Christian literature, English.
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Emotions--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Emotions.
- Emotions in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff, [Wales] : University of Wales Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- Cultivating the Heart examines the nurturance of feeling - especially the intertwined affective stirrings of compassion, love, and sorrow - in a range of religious texts from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. These texts encourage, stimulate, define and attempt to express the 'cultivation of hearts', an image inspired by Part VII of Ancrene Wisse, whereby readers and audiences of the texts nurture a range of sophisticated 'affective literacies'. In addition to extensive analysis of English, Latin and Anglo-Norman texts, this book makes substantial reference to the affective strategies of wall paintings in parish churches, demonstrating how the affective strategies of wall paintings cannot be perceived as inferior to or irreconcilable with the affective import of textual media.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 29, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 9781783162789
- 1783162783
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