IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 1211: Lacrimae: Tears in Scholastic Thought, Popular Preaching, and Law
Wednesday 12 July 2006, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Karl Shoemaker, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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Moderator/Chair: | Karl Shoemaker, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Paper 1211-a | Tears as Interpreted by 12th-Century Schoolmen (Language: English) Index terms: Philosophy, Theology |
Paper 1211-b | How the Devil Was Undone at Law by a Weeping Woman (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Law |
Abstract | This panel will examine the phenomenon of tears and weeping in several discrete medieval contexts. Susan Kramer will examine the various ways in which 12th-century scholastics understood tears. Karl Shoemaker will examine a 15th-century manuscript tradition which imagined a litigious devil suing to gain possession of Christian souls only to be defeated by the tears of Mary. This panel will contribute to the emotion and gesture strand of this conference, and will contribute to an emergent body of scholarship that looks at the meanings of tears in the medieval world. |