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IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 527: Tears in the Medieval World

Tuesday 13 July 2010, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews
Organiser:Kimberley-Joy Knight, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews
Moderator/Chair:Frances Andrews, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews
Paper 527-aPiety, Masculinity, and Tears in Late Anglo-Saxon England
(Language: English)
Tracey-Anne Cooper, Department of History, St John's University, Queens, New York
Index terms: Gender Studies, Religious Life
Paper 527-b'Women should lament and weep, women should express sorrow, but you should take comfort and advise us all': Masculinity and Emotional Display in the Histories of the Normans
(Language: English)
William M. Aird, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University
Index terms: Gender Studies, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 527-cThe Presence and Absence of Tears in 13th-Century Hagiographies
(Language: English)
Kimberley-Joy Knight, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews
Index terms: Hagiography, Religious Life
Abstract

This panel will examine tears in religious and political life and will contribute to an emergent body of scholarship that looks at the meanings of tears in the medieval world.