Affective meditation and the invention of medieval compassion [electronic resource] / Sarah McNamer.
Series: Middle Ages seriesPublication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.Description: viii, 309 p. : illISBN:- 0812242114 (alk. paper)
- 9780812202786 (ebook)
- 9780812242119 (alk. paper)
- Jesus Christ -- Passion -- Prayers and devotions -- History and criticism
- Compassion -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- To 1500
- Devotional literature, English (Middle) -- History and criticism
- Devotional literature, Italian -- History and criticism
- Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- History and criticism
- Emotions -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- To 1500
- Femininity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- To 1500
- Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Devotion to -- England -- History -- To 1500
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- BV4818 .M38 2010eb

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-297) and indexes.
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