UID:
almahu_9949703791802882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004477902
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9789004105171
Series Statement:
Studies in the History of Christian Traditions ; 70
Content:
Tears and weeping are, at once, human universals and socially-constrained phenomena. This volume explores the interface between those two viewpoints by examining medical literature, sermons, and lyric poetry of the 16th and 17th centuries to see how dominant paradigms regarded who could, who must, and who must not weep. These paradigms shifted in some cases radically, during these centuries. Without a clear understanding of how the Renaissance 'read' tears, it is difficult to avoid using our own preconceptions -- often quite different and very misleading. There are five chapters; one on medical and scientific material, two on sermons, and two on different types of lyric.
Note:
Preliminary Material /
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Acknowledgments /
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Introduction: Lacrimae Rerum /
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Chapter One "The Brain's Thinnest Excrement": Renaissance Medicine /
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Chapter Two "Out of My Pen No Inke but Teares": The Poetic Miscellanies /
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Chapter Three "To Clyme by Teares the Common Staires of Men": Preaching Tears /
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Chapter Four "And Jesus Wept": Preaching Tears and Jesus /
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Chapter Five "We' are Taught Best by Thy Teares and Thee": Donne, Herbert, Crashaw /
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Bibliography /
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Index of Names /
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Studies in the History of Christian Thought /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Telling Tears in the English Renaissance. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1996 ISBN 9789004105171
Language:
English
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