Telling Tears in the English Renaissance

Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-90-04-10517-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 70, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 667 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lange, Marjory E

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Marjory E. Lange, Ph.D. (1993) in English, University of Arizona, is Assistant Professor of English at Viterbo College, La Crosse, Wisconsin.