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Pages: 281
Authors: Françoise Mirguet
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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An Early History of Compassion explores the role of the emotional imagination within the context of Roman imperialism.
Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture
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Pages: 319
Authors: Kristine Steenbergh
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-22 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Explores how early modern Europeans responded to suffering and asks how they both described and practised compassion.
Compassion's Edge
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Katherine Ibbett
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Compassion's Edge traces the relation between compassion and toleration after France's Wars of Religion. This is not, however, a story about compassion overcomi
Habits of Compassion
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Pages: 314
Authors: Maureen Fitzgerald
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-12-11 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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The Irish-Catholic Sisters accomplished tremendously successful work in founding charitable organizations in New York City from the Irish famine through the ear
The Tragedy of American Compassion
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Marvin Olasky
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-02-01 - Publisher: Regnery Publishing

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This is a book of hope at a time when just about everyone but Marvin Olasky has lost hope. The topic is poverty and the underclass. The profound truth that Marv