Studies on Medieval Empathies [SIGNED]

Rudolph M. Bell, Karl F. Morrison, Giselle de Nie, Constance B. Bouchard, Rachel Fulton Brown, Michael I. Allen, Herbert L. Kessler, Barbara Newman, Bernard McGinn, Marcia L. Colish, Sabine MacCormack, Thomas F. X. Noble, and Richard Kieckhefer

ISBN 10: 2503530311 / ISBN 13: 9782503530314

Published by Brepols, 2013

About this Item

2013 Brepols hardcover edition. Light reading wear, else very good condition. Signed by both editors to previous owner.

Contents:

(1) Framing the Subject: Humanity and the Wounds of Love,
(2) Mutatio sensus: Poetics of Holiness and Healing in Paulinus of Perigueux's Life of Saint Martin,
(3) Reconstructing Sanctity and Refiguring Saints in Early Medieval Gaul,
(4) Anselm and Praying with the Saints,
(5) Lupus, or the Wolf in the Library: New Commentary, Edition, and Translation of Lupus of Ferrieres, Epistola 1,
(6) A Sanctifying Serpent: Crucifixix as Cure,
(7) Indwelling: A Meditation on Empathy, Pregnancy, and the Virgin Mary,
(8) Love: Active, Contemplative, Essential,
(9) Ramon Lull's Book of the Gentile and the Three Sages: Empathy or Apology?,
(10) Hell and Punishment, Pain, and Salvation in Augustine and his Commentator Juan Luis Vives,
(11) Rome and the Romans in the Medieval Mind: Empathy and Antipathy,
(12) Empathy for the Oppressor.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Studies on Medieval Empathies [SIGNED]
• Publisher: Brepols
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2503530311
• ISBN 13: 9782503530314
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medieval Studies

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Synopsis

As a feeling or instinct for kinship, empathy is rooted in human connectedness - it belongs to the field of emotional forces that attract and repel and alloy. Since empathy springs from a person's sense of oneness with another, it differs from sympathy, which marks a distance between the unharmed perceiver and the injured perceived, and from altruism, which also poses difference by setting between them the objective duty of the unharmed to help the injured. This book is an experiment in empathy: it takes a new step by mapping out the profile empathy had in the creative imagination of Europe in the Middle Ages, the period when European culture took permanent shape. The studies give special attention to how the stimuli of art were used to teach, and hold up for imitation models of empathetic fervour. They identify areas in which the dynamic between insiders and outsiders forced subversive explorations of what it meant to be human. Like falling in love across ethnic, racial, or religious borders, empathy has its dangers, one of which is assimilation to former outsiders. This book is also an emphatic experiment in that it is a collaborative work by a number of scholars in different fields. Each contributor is an acknowledged expert, not only in one area, but also in crisscrossing the artificial borders of academic departments to reveal the interlocking connections that give emotional power to all images, verbal, pictorial, or performative. Thus, a number of themes weave through the whole book: art history, musicology, theology, biography, spirituality, and feminism.

About the Author

Rudolph M. Bell is professor of history at Rutgers University. Some of his more recent books published include, The Voices of Gemma Galgani: The Life and Afterlife of a Modern Saint, with Cristina Mazzoni, How to Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians, and Holy Anorexia.