An Early History of Compassion explores the role of the emotional imagination within the context of Roman imperialism.

This book examines how early Christians cultivated affective compassion as a virtue in a Roman world that valued emotional tranquillity.

Explores how early modern Europeans responded to suffering and asks how they both described and practised compassion.

The Irish-Catholic Sisters accomplished tremendously successful work in founding charitable organizations in New York City from the Irish famine through the ear

In this book, Françoise Mirguet traces the appropriation and reinterpretation of pity by Greek-speaking Jewish communities of Late Antiquity. Pity and compassi