Karl F. Morrison — Biographical Context. A Chronological Bibliography of Karl F. Morrison’s Published Works
Rudolph M. Bell
Empathy is a deep feeling or intuition for kinship transcending self-preoccupied individuality. This book about empathy in the Middle Ages, before it had name.The authors begin by tracing origins of pre-Christian Antiquity and early Christianity, especially mysteries divine justice, which good often suffered wicked prospered and, as with surgical healing, compassion was manifested inflicting pain. The also explore many facets empathy’s development Latin West, criss-crossing artificial borders academic departments to reveal interlocking connections that give emotional power images, whether verbal, pictorial, performative. In powerful multi-disciplinary collaboration, they identify conditions limits empathy, areas dynamic between insiders outsiders forced subversive explorations what meant be human.
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