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Yawning makes one yawn, crying makes one cry. In the same way, a shiver, appetite, sexual desire and confidence are transmitted from one person to another. These examples capture the contagion-like dimension of emotion, spreading rapidly among people with tangible behavioural manifestations. Emotional contagion still challenges scientific explanation, and philosophical, scientific and anthropological topics converge around this issue. In Medieval Latin, there is a specific name for this contagion: compassio ('compassion'). Etymologically, 'compassion' means the co-experience of a 'passion', involving an involuntary reaction of the soul or the body imitating the reactions of others. The book investigates how these topics were treated in medieval learned texts, and illuminates the twofold enigma, that of the trajectory of the term compassio, and that of explaining the phenomenon it denoted.
Contents
Introduction
Part I: The Aristotelian Problemata Physica: A melting-pot for ideas of emotional contagion
1 Book 7 of the Problemata: A Guiding Thread
2 Distant Suffering
3 Contagious yawning
4 The shiver or shudder of compassio
5 The transmission of diseases
Mid-way conclusion
Part II: Other fields and sources, similarities and contrasts
6 Compassion and mercy in theology and pastoral ministry
7 Medical sources: Galen and Avicenna
8 Compassio at the Salerno medical school (1150-1200)
9 Compassio in scholastic medicine (1): Gentile da Foligno and Tommaso del Garbo
10 Compassio in scholastic medicine (2): Jacopo da Forlì, Ugo Benzi, and Jerome Torrella
11 Compassio in natural philosophy
Conclusion
Index
