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Source : Brepols PublishersStudies on Medieval EmpathiesK. F. Morrison, R. M. Bell (eds.)XXXII+352 p., 2 b/w ill. + 4 colour ill., 156 x 234 mm, 2013ISBN: 978-2-503-53031-4Retail price: EUR 90,00 excl. taxEmpathy 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 what it meant to be human.The doctrine of Christ as mediator of divine love dominated medieval thought about empathy as a human instinct. Taken together, like magnetic poles, two pictures in this book represent that mediation in action. The cover illustration, a mid-ninth-century ivory plaque from Carolingian Gaul, depicts Christ, the Divine Word, Love incarnate, glorified, enthroned, and adored by angels as creator, judge, and teacher. The second, Plate 1, from the same period and region, represents the act that sealed the mediation of divine love to humanity: Christ the man, tortured and dying for love.Table of ContentsPreface - Rudolph M. BellKarl F. Morrison — Biographical ContextA Chronological Bibliography of Karl F. Morrison's Published WorksFraming the Subject: Humanity and the Wounds of Love - Karl F. MorrisonPart I. Empathy before the Word? Mutatio sensus: Poetics of Holiness and Healing in Paulinus of Périgueux’s Life of Saint Martin - Giselle de NieReconstructing Sanctity and Refiguring Saints in Early Medieval Gaul - Constance B. BouchardAnselm and Praying with the Saints - Rachel Fulton BrownPart II. Performing Empathy: Learning by PracticeLupus, or the Wolf in the Library: New Commentary, Edition, and Translation of Lupus of Ferrieres, Epistola 1 - Michael I. AllenA Sanctifying Serpent: Crucifix as Cure - Herbert L. KesslerPart III. Assimilations of Empathy into TheologyIndwelling: A Meditation on Empathy, Pregnancy, and the Virgin Mary - Barbara NewmanLove: Active, Contemplative, Essential - Bernard McGinnRamon Lull's Book of the Gentile and the Three Sages: Empathy or Apology? - Marcia L. ColishPart IV. Humanism and Humanity: Testing the Limits of EmpathyHell and Punishment, Pain, and Salvation in Augustine and his Commentator Juan Luis Vives - Sabine MacCormackRome and the Romans in the Medieval Mind: Empathy and Antipathy - Thomas F. X. NobleEmpathy for the Oppressor - Richard KieckheferIndex