Sacred and profane, public and private, emotive and ritualistic, internal and embodied, medieval weeping served as a culturally charged prism for a host of soci

This provocative and indispensable book provides a natural and cultural history of our most mysterious and complex human function: our ability to shed tears. Al

Representations of feeling in medieval literature are varied and complex. This new collection of essays demonstrates that the history of emotions and affect the

Focuses on one of the most attractive features of late medieval manuscript illumination: the portrait of the book owner at prayer within the pages of her prayer

The practice and the representation of flaying in the middle ages and after are considered in this provocative collection.