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Die interdisziplinär angelegte Studie belegt, historische Konzepte rekonstruierend, dass der zu Beginn des 13. Jahrhunderts entstandene ,Parzival' Wolframs von Eschenbach Konzepte von compassio adaptiert und integriert. Zur Klärung des Begriffs dienen Sondierungen in der lateinischen geistlichen Literatur. Dieser zufolge bedeutet compassio um 1200 eine praktisch-ethische bzw. affektive Partizipation und Angleichung an das Leiden des Nächsten bzw. an Christi Passion und bildet dadurch auch einen Verstehensakt, eine Hermeneutik des Leidens. Vergleichbare Konzepte sind zu gleicher Zeit am Hof Hermanns I. von Thüringen (1190-1217) präsent, dem damaligen Zentrum volkssprachiger Literaturproduktion. Sie lassen sich dort vornehmlich aus den Miniaturen des zu Beginn des 13. Jahrhunderts angefertigten ,Elisabethpsalters' erschließen. Vor dem Hintergrund obiger Ergebnisse gewinnt die literaturwissenschaftliche Analyse des Romans an Profil. Compassio bildet im Parzivalteil ein handlungskonstituierendes Element und wird dort, die Handlung spiegelnd, sogar vom Erzähler in Kommentaren und Publikumsanreden aufgegriffen. Die Arbeit wurde mit dem "Zeno Karl Schindler-Preis für Literaturwissenschaft 2006" ausgezeichnet.

Wolfram von Eschenbach --- Compassion in literature. --- Literature. --- Wolfram, von Eschenbach, active 12th century. Parzival. --- Compassion in literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Germanic Literature --- Compassion (Buddhism) in literature --- Wolfram, --- Elisabeth (Thuringia, landgravess), emotion/in literature, compassion/in literature, Middle Ages/literature, Parzival.

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This collection is an enquiry into compassion as an early modern emotional phenomenon, situating it within the complexity of European economic, social, cultural and religious tensions. Drawing on recent work in the history of emotions, leading scholars consider the particularities of early modern compassion, demonstrating its entanglements with diverse genres and geographies. Chapters on canonical and less familiar works explore tragedy, comedy, sermons, philosophy, treatises on consolation, medical writing, and dramatic theory, showing how early modern compassion shaped attitudes and social structures that remain central to the way we imagine our response to suffering today, and how such investigations can ultimately provoke new ways of thinking about community in contemporary Europe.

English literature --- Literature and society --- Christianity and literature --- Compassion in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Compassion (Buddhism) in literature --- European literature --- Compassion in literature --- History and criticism --- Thematology --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699

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This book explores a heretofore unremarked linkage between Bernard Shaw, the twentieth-century French thinker Paul Ricoeur, and Jesus of Nazareth. The ties that bind them are a foundational interest in the social teachings of the Nazarene and their use of a shared dialectics with respect to living the kind of compassionate life that holds out the promise in our contemporary world of achieving something approximating universal wellness on a healthy planet at peace with itself. This work argues that the three principal subjects of the study—independently of one another—used the same dialectical method to reach the same dialectically derived conclusion about how humans can live redemptively in a fractured world. Howard Ira Einsohn was a part-time instructor at Middlesex Community College and Wesleyan University’s Institute of Lifelong Learning for a combined total of 15 years (2004-2019), most of which were spent at the former institution. During this period, he taught courses in writing, advanced writing, technical writing, literature surveys, drama and the short story, as well as courses on Ibsen, Flannery O’Connor, and Tim O’Brien.

Compassion. --- Compassion in literature. --- Jesus Christ. --- Theater --- Religion --- Literature --- Theatre History. --- Philosophy of Religion. --- Literary Theory. --- History. --- Philosophy.

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'A deeply original work of scholarship. Through fine close readings of primary and secondary texts, the author offers the fullest account we have of the related phenomena of pain, sympathy, and sensation in early modern culture.' Michael Schoenfeldt, John R. Knott, Jr., Professor of English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In late medieval Catholicism, pain was seen as a way of imitating Christ, and as an avenue to salvation. During the early modern period, Protestant theologians came to reject these assumptions, and attempted to redefine and circumscribe the spiritual meaning of suffering. The rethinking of the meaning of pain during the early modern era is the central theme of this book. The author pays particular attention to how literary writers explored the issue of pain, by placing their work in a broad context of devotional, theological, philosophical and medical texts on suffering. In detailed readings of Alabaster, Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Lanyer, Spenser, Milton and Montaigne, he shows that early modern culture located the meaning of pain in its capacity to elicit compassion in others - yet the nature of this compassion was also fiercely contested. Dr Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Leiden.

English literature --- Thematology --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Compassion in literature. --- Englisch. --- Folter. --- Literatur. --- Mitleid. --- Pain in literature. --- Schmerz. --- Early modern. --- History and criticism --- 1500-1700. --- Compassion (Buddhism) in literature --- History and criticism. --- Jacobean poetry. --- Religion. --- poetry.

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Bâiller fait bâiller, pleurer fait pleurer. D'autres élans corporels ou psychiques, le frisson, l'appétit, le désir sexuel, la confiance, se transmettent ainsi qu'une personne à l'autre. Le latin médiéval dispose d'un terme spécifique pour désigner cette contagion : "compassio", la compassion. Selon l'étymologie, il s'agit d'éprouver ensemble une passion. Pour les auteurs scolastiques, la compassion est une réaction involontaire de l'âme ou du corps qui reflète le comportement d'autrui comme par imitation. La double énigme de la "compassio" - énigme de la trajectoire du mot, énigme du phénomène lui-même - constitue le fil conducteur d'une enquête à travers les sources universitaires du Moyen Âge.

Latin literature, Medieval and modern --- Compassion in literature --- Imitation --- Philosophy, Medieval --- Medicine, Medieval --- Littérature latine médiévale et moderne --- Compassion dans la littérature --- Philosophie médiévale --- Médecine médiévale --- Themes, motives --- Thèmes, motifs --- Théologie --- Compassion --- Histoire --- Littérature latine médiévale et moderne --- Compassion dans la littérature --- Philosophie médiévale --- Médecine médiévale --- Thèmes, motifs --- Philosophie médiévale. --- Théologie chrétienne --- Compassion. --- Histoire.