Béatrice Delaurenti, La Contagion des emotions. ‘Compassio’, a medieval enigma
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Les Problemata physica, whose award to Aristotle is not called into question in the Middle Age, deal with a range of physics issues. The seventh section refers to phenomena of infection, whether physical or psychological, in emotional movements and illness: Latin uses to designate this reality the term, which has several meanings, of compassio. The subject of the book is ‘medieval speeches on compassion’ (p. 15), theo...