Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion (The Middle Ages Series)

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Illustrated
2009
$77.96

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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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.

$77.96

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 320
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Published: 03 Nov 2009
ISBN 10: 0812242114
ISBN 13: 9780812242119

Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion (The Middle Ages Series)

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$77.96

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$77.96

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