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This is the first comprehensive study of sympathy in the early modern period, providing a deeply researched and interdisciplinary examination of its development

The first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of sympathy in early modern Anglophone literature and culture.

This collection is an enquiry into compassion as an early modern emotional phenomenon, situating it within the complexity of European economic, social, cultural

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

An examination of the themes of pain and compassion in key Renaissance writers, at a time when religious attitudes to suffering were changing.