Birds Beneath the Eaves: An Introduction -- Section I: Paradigms of Love -- Chapter 1 Jesus the Beloved, Jesus the Lover -- Chapter 2 The Many Shapes of the Heart -- Section II: Embodied Affect -- Chapter 3 The Body -- Chapter 4 Blood -- Section III: Affective Semiotics -- Chapter 5 Absence -- Chapter 6 Secrecy -- Birds Ascent: Conclusions.
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This book offers a comparative study of emotion in Arabic Islamic and English Christian contemplative texts, c. 1110-1250, contributing to the emerging interest in globalization in medieval studies. A.S. Lazikani argues for the necessity of placing medieval English devotional texts in a more global context and seeks to modify influential narratives on the history of emotions to enable this more wide-ranging critical outlook. Across eight chapters, the book examines the dialogic encounters generated by comparative readings of Muhyddin Ibn Arabi (1165-1240), Umar Ibn al-Farid (1181-1235), Abu al-Hasan al-Shushtari (d. 1269), Ancrene Wisse (c. 1225), and the Wooing Group (c. 1225). Investigating the two-fold paradigms of love in the figure of Jesus and in the image of the heart, the (dis)embodied language of affect, and the affective semiotics of absence and secrecy, Lazikani demonstrates an interconnection between the religious traditions of early Christianity and Islam.
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303059923X
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Christian literature, English (Middle)-- History and criticism.
Emotions in literature.
Emotions-- Religious aspects-- Christianity.
Emotions-- Religious aspects-- Islam.
Islamic literature-- History and criticism.
Literature, Medieval-- History and criticism.
Émotions-- Aspect religieux-- Christianisme.
Littérature chrétienne anglaise (moyen anglais)-- Histoire et critique.