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

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

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

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