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 |
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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-a | Piety, Masculinity, and Tears in Late Anglo-Saxon England (Language: English) 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) Index terms: Gender Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 527-c | The Presence and Absence of Tears in 13th-Century Hagiographies (Language: English) 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. |