Cultivating the Heart
Feeling and Emotion in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Religious Texts
Distributed for University of Wales Press
272 pages
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4 color plates
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6 x 9
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© 2015
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Series Editors’ Preface
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Note on Editions and Translations
Introduction: Feeling in the High Middle Ages
1 Upon a Spiritual Cross: Feeling in the Lambeth and Trinity Homilies
2 The Gnawed Hand: Presence and Absence of Feeling in the Early South
English Legendaries
3 Co-feeling: Compassion in Ancrene Wisse and the Wooing Group
4 Call Me Bitter: Feeling and Sensing in Passion Lyrics
Conclusion
Notes
Select Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Note on Editions and Translations
Introduction: Feeling in the High Middle Ages
1 Upon a Spiritual Cross: Feeling in the Lambeth and Trinity Homilies
2 The Gnawed Hand: Presence and Absence of Feeling in the Early South
English Legendaries
3 Co-feeling: Compassion in Ancrene Wisse and the Wooing Group
4 Call Me Bitter: Feeling and Sensing in Passion Lyrics
Conclusion
Notes
Select Bibliography
Review Quotes
Elizabeth Robertson, University of Glasgow
“This volume demonstrates how early Middle English religious writings and paintings teach their readers and viewers both to thwart and to embrace affective pain—that is, the interconnected stirrings of love, compassion, and sorrow inspired by the redemptive suffering of Christ and the Saints. Framed authoritatively within the latest critical discussion of the history of emotions and affective literacies, Lazikani’s sensitive readings of these sometimes alienating medieval works recover their emotional intensity and illuminate the function of the extreme suffering they evoke.”
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