Studies on Medieval Empathies Tapa dura - 2013

Turnhout: Brepols . xxxii 347pp hardback, illustrated laminated boards, near fine . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2013.

Turnhout Brepols 2012. Hardback, approx. X+380 p., 11 b/w ill. + 6 colour ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503530314. Empathy is a deep feeling or intuition for kinship transcending self-preoccupied individuality. This book is about empathy in the Middle Ages, before it had a name.The authors begin by tracing the origins of empathy in pre-Christian Antiquity and early Christianity, especially in mysteries of divine justice, by which the good often suffered and the wicked prospered and, as with surgical healing, compassion was manifested by inflicting pain. The authors also explore many facets of empathy's development in the Latin West, criss-crossing the artificial borders of academic departments to reveal interlocking connections that give emotional power to images, whether verbal, pictorial, or performative. In a powerful multi-disciplinary collaboration, they identify conditions and limits of empathy, and areas in which the dynamic between insiders and outsiders forced subversive explorations of… Leer más

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Brepols Publishers, 2009. Hardcover. New. bilingual edition. 407 pages. 9.40x6.40x0.90 inches.

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Brepols Publishers, 2013. 1st. hardcover. New. 102x14x150.

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