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Between late antiquity and the fifteenth century, theologians, philosophers, and poets struggled to articulate the correct relationship between sound and sense, creating taxonomies of sounds based on their capacity to carry meaning. This book traces how medieval thinkers adopted the concept of noise as a mode of lay understanding grounded in the body and the senses. With a broadly interdisciplinary approach, the book examines a range of literary genres to highlight the poetic and social effects of this vibrant discourse, offering close readings of works by Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland, as well as the mystics Richard Rolle and Margery Kempe. Each of these writers embraced an embodied experience of language resistant to clear articulation, even as their work reflects inherited anxieties about the appeal of such sensations.

English literature --- Noise in literature. --- Themes, motives. --- Rolle, Richard, --- Kempe, Margery, --- Langland, William, --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- England --- Intellectual life --- Epistemology, Medieval thinking, sound and sense, Chaucer, Langland, Richard Rolle, and Margery Kempe.

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Mystical writing flourished between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries across Europe and in England, and had a wide influence on religion and spirituality. This volume examines a range of topics within the field. The five "Middle English Mystics" (Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton, the author of The Cloud of Unknowing, Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe) receive renewed attention, with significant new insights generated by fresh theoretical approaches. In addition, there are studies of the relationships between continental and English mystical authors, introductions to some less well-known writers in the tradition (such as the Monk of Farne), and explorations around the fringes of the mystical canon, including Middle English translations of Boethius, Lollard spirituality, and the Syon brother Richard Whytford's writings for a sixteenth-century "mixed life" audience. E. A. Jones is Senior Lecturer in English Medieval Literature and Culture at the University of Exeter. Contributors: Christine Cooper-Rompato, Vincent Gillespie, C. Annette Grisé, Ian Johnson, Sarah Macmillan, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Nicole R. Rice, Maggie Ross, Steven Rozenski Jr, David Russell, Michael G. Sargent, Christiana Whitehead.

Mysticism --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- History --- Continental and English Mystical Authors. --- England. --- Julian of Norwich. --- Lollard Spirituality. --- Margery Kempe. --- Medieval Mystical Writing. --- Middle English Mystics. --- Richard Rolle. --- Syon Brother Richard Whytford. --- The Cloud of Unknowing. --- Walter Hilton.

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"Margery Kempe's various illnesses, mental, spiritual and physical, are a recurring theme in her Book. This volume, the first full-length interdisciplinary study from a medical humanities perspective, offers a medicalized reading of Kempe's spirituality in the context of the ubiquitous medieval notion of Christ the Physician, and thus a new way of interpreting the Book itself: as a narrative of Kempe's own engagement with the medical paradigms of which she has previously been a passive subject. Focusing on the interactions of medicine, mysticism and reproduction as a feminist project, the author explores the ontology of female flesh; the productive use of pain, suffering and sickness; and the ethics of a maternal theology based on the melancholic and surrogate activities that underlie Kempe's experience. Structured broadly via a traverse through the life course, the book shows how Kempe's response to suffering is illuminated by the medieval medical discourse by which she is contemporaneously read, and by which she engineers her own construction and understanding of self. It also explores Kempe's persistent attendance to her mystical body and refusal to compromise her instinct to authentically show how she feels. "--

Christian women --- Mysticism --- Women --- Medicine, Medieval --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- Women, Christian --- Religious life --- History. --- Early works to 1800. --- Health and hygiene --- History --- Kempe, Margery, --- Book of Margery Kempe (Kempe, Margery) --- To 1500 --- England. --- Angleterre --- Anglii͡ --- Anglija --- Engeland --- Inghilterra --- Inglaterra --- Christ the Physician. --- feminist. --- interdisciplinary study. --- maternal theology. --- medical discourse. --- medical humanities. --- medieval. --- mysticism. --- ontology. --- spirituality.

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What religion does not serve as a theater of tears? Holy Tears addresses this all but universal phenomenon with passion and precision, ranging from Mycenaean Greece up through the tragedy of 9/11. Sixteen authors, including many leading voices in the study of religion, offer essays on specific topics in religious weeping while also considering broader issues such as gender, memory, physiology, and spontaneity. A comprehensive, elegantly written introduction offers a key to these topics. Given the pervasiveness of its theme, it is remarkable that this book is the first of its kind--and it is long overdue. The essays ask such questions as: Is religious weeping primal or culturally constructed? Is it universal? Is it spontaneous? Does God ever cry? Is religious weeping altered by sexual or social roles? Is it, perhaps, at once scripted and spontaneous, private and communal? Is it, indeed, divine? The grief occasioned by 9/11 and violence in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, and elsewhere offers a poignant context for this fascinating and richly detailed book. Holy Tears concludes with a compelling meditation on the theology of weeping that emerged from pastoral responses to 9/11, as described in the editors' interview with Reverend Betsee Parker, who became head chaplain for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of New York City and leader of the multifaith chaplaincy team at Ground Zero. The contributors are Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Amy Bard, Herbert Basser, Santha Bhattacharji, William Chittick, Gary Ebersole, M. David Eckel, John Hawley, Gay Lynch, Jacob Olúpqnà (with Solá Ajíbádé), Betsee Parker, Kimberley Patton, Nehemia Polen, Kay Read, and Kallistos Ware.

Crying --- Religious aspects. --- Anchorite. --- Bhakti. --- Bodhisattva. --- Book of Lamentations. --- Braj. --- Buddhism. --- Chaplain. --- Christian art. --- Church Fathers. --- Contrition. --- Counter-Reformation. --- Crocodile tears. --- Damnation. --- Deity. --- Devotio Moderna. --- Devotio. --- Empty tomb. --- Equanimity. --- Exegesis. --- Ezekiel. --- Fall of man. --- Fertility rite. --- Glorification. --- God. --- Good and evil. --- Gopi. --- Hadith. --- Harrowing of Hell. --- Hasid (term). --- Husain. --- Hyperbole. --- Impermanence. --- Infidel. --- Isaac of Nineveh. --- Islamic literature. --- Jews. --- John Chrysostom. --- Judaism. --- Judas Maccabeus. --- Kabbalah. --- Karbala. --- Lament. --- Laughter. --- Literature. --- Mahayana. --- Majlis. --- Margery Kempe. --- Martyr. --- Mary Magdalene. --- Mary, mother of Jesus. --- Metatron. --- Midrash. --- Mircea Eliade. --- Mono no aware. --- Mortal sin. --- Mourning. --- Muslim. --- Names of God in Judaism. --- Oral Torah. --- Ordination of women. --- Pablo Picasso. --- Penitential. --- Perfection of Wisdom. --- Pity. --- Poemen. --- Poetry. --- Pope Gregory I. --- Popular piety. --- Premarital sex. --- Psalms. --- Pseudo-Bonaventura. --- Purgatory. --- Raccolta. --- Rashi. --- Recitation. --- Relic. --- Religion. --- Religious experience. --- Rite. --- Rogier van der Weyden. --- Sadness. --- Salvation. --- Shams Tabrizi. --- Shekhinah. --- Simon the Pharisee. --- Sin. --- Society of Jesus. --- Sotah (Talmud). --- Spirituality. --- Stupa. --- Sufism. --- Supplication. --- Surdas. --- Sutra. --- Ta'anit. --- Theodicy. --- Theology. --- To This Day. --- Virginity. --- William Chittick.

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