讲座预告 | No. 37: From Passion to Compassion

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浙江大学中世纪与文艺复兴研究中心系列讲座（三十七）

CMRS Lecture Series No. 37, Zhejiang University

From Passion to Compassion: 

Late Medieval Literature and the History of Sympathy

Speaker: Prof. Jon Whitman

(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Moderator: Prof. Hao Tianhu

(Zhejiang University)

Time: 15:00-16:30 pm, March 31, 2023 (Beijing time)

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Abstract: It has long been recognized that sympathy for illicit or wayward love is no invention of the modern era. But in the formative period before modernity in the West—in the Middle Ages of Christian Europe—under what circumstances can transgressive acts of passion be regarded with compassion? To what extent is sympathy of this kind reconcilable with Christian piety, and how do the conditions—emotional, ethical, cognitive, imaginative—underlying such sympathy change over time? An exploration of some of the most influential literary works of the late Middle Ages suggests provocative turns in the history of sympathy.

Bio: Prof. Jon Whitman (A.M. and Ph.D., Harvard; B.Phil., Oxford; B.A., summa cum laude, Columbia) is a medievalist whose work explores the interplay of intellectual and imaginative changes from antiquity to the modern period. Long affiliated with the English Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he is now emeritus, he directed for many years the University's Center for Literary Studies. Among his publications are Allegory: The Dynamics of an Ancient and Medieval Technique (co-published by Oxford UP and Harvard UP, 1987) and a collaborative study under his editorship, Romance and History: Imagining Time from the Medieval to the Early Modern Period (Cambridge UP, 2015).

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