Compassion's Edge : : Fellow-Feeling and Its Limits in Early Modern France / / Katherine Ibbett.
Compassion's Edge examines the language of fellow-feeling-pity, compassion, and charitable care-that flourished in France in the period from the Edict of Nantes in 1598, which established some degree of religious toleration, to the official breakdown of that toleration with the Revocation of th...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Univ.of Pennsylvania Press eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2020] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Haney Foundation Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 2 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. Compassion's Edge
- Chapter 1. Pitiful Sights: Reading the Wars of Religion
- Chapter 2. The Compassion Machine: Theories of Fellow-Feeling, 1570-1692
- Chapter 3. Caritas, Compassion, and Religious Difference
- Chapter 4. Pitiful States: Marital Miscompassion and the Historical Novel
- Chapter 5. Affective Absolutism and the Problem of Religious Difference
- Chapter 6. Compassionate Labor in Seventeenth-Century Montreal
- Epilogue. Something Like Compassion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments