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Compassion's edge : fellow-feeling and its limits in early modern France /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.,
2017.
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| Colección: | Haney Foundation series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 the Edict in 1685. This is not, however, a story about compassion overcoming difference but one of compassion reinforcing division: the seventeenth-century texts of fellow-feeling led not to communal concerns but to paralysis, misreading, and isolation. Early modern fellow-feeling drew distinctions, policed its borders, and far from reaching out to others, kept the other at arm's length. It became a central feature in the debates about the place of religious minorities after the Wars of Religion, and according to Katherine Ibbett, continues to shape the way we think about difference today.-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages (263-285) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0812294564 9780812294569 |