Blessed are those who weep : gratia lacrymarum in thirteenth-century hagiographies
Hagiographies and canonisation processes from the thirteenth century are frequently saturated with descriptions of tears. The tears of holy men and women were both the means to, and apex of, spiritual perfection. Using hagiographical sources from the new Mendicant Orders emerging in Italy, France an...
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University of St Andrews
2014
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.658919 |