Christianity and emotionality: from medieval tears to Amoris Laetitia
"For what not stop to talk about feelings and sexuality in marriage?"asks Pope Francis in the exhortation Amoris Laetitia (n. 142). The question has troubled anthropologists and historians ever since Roland Barthes denounced the postponement of feelings in history: "Who will The history of tears? In what societies, in what times has there been weeping?"