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contents G Introduction: Intimate Scripts in the History of Emotion 1 part i The Origins of an Affective Mode 1. Compassion and the Making of a True Sponsa Christi 25 2. The Genealogy of a Genre 58 3. Franciscan Meditation Reconsidered 86 part ii Performing Compassion in Late Medieval England 4. Feeling Like a Woman 119 5. Marian Lament and the Rise of a Vernacular Ethics 150 6. Kyndenesse and Resistance in the Middle English Passion Lyric 174 Notes 207 viii contents Works Cited 271 Index of Manuscripts 299 Index 300 Acknowledgments 307 ...

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