Crying in the Middle Ages

<p>Sacred and profane public and private emotive and ritualistic internal and embodied medieval weeping served as a culturally charged prism for a host of social visual cognitive and linguistic performances. <em>Crying in the Middle Ages</em> addresses the place of tears in Jewish Christian and Islamic cultural discourses providing a key resource for scholars interested in exploring medieval notions of emotion gesture and sensory experience in a variety of cultural contexts. </p><p>Gertsman brings together essays that establish a series of conversations with one another foregrounding essential questions about the different ways that crying was seen heard perceived expressed and transmitted throughout the Middle Ages. In acknowledging the porous nature of visual and verbal evidence this collection foregrounds the necessity to read language image and experience together in order to envision the complex notions of medieval crying.</p>