TY - BOOK ID - 668252 TI - Studies on medieval empathies AU - Morrison, Karl Frederick AU - Bell, Rudolph M. PY - 2013 VL - 25 SN - 9782503530314 9782503540108 2503540104 2503530311 PB - Turnhout: Brepols, DB - UniCat KW - History of civilization KW - Philosophy and psychology of culture KW - Christian spirituality KW - anno 500-1499 KW - Empathy KW - Religious thought KW - Empathie KW - Pensée religieuse KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Sources KW - Christianity. KW - Sources. KW - Pensée religieuse KW - Middle Ages, 600-1500 KW - Middle Ages, 500-1500 KW - Empathy - Religious aspects - Christianity KW - Empathy - Religious aspects - Christianity - Sources KW - Religious thought - Middle Ages, 600-1500 KW - Moyen Age UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:668252 AB - 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 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. ER -