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Caritas : neighbourly love and the early modern self / Katie Barclay.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barclay, Katie, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neighborhoods--History--Scotland--18th century.
- Neighborhoods.
- Scotland.
- Genre:
- History.
- Informational works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 pages).
- Edition:
- New product.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Caritas, a form of grace that turned our love for our neighbour into a spiritual practice, was expected of all early modern Christians, and corresponded with a set of ethical rules for living that displayed one's love in the everyday. Caritas was not just a willingness to behave morally, to keep the peace, and to uphold social order however, but was expected to be felt as a strong passion, like that of a parent to a child. This book explores the importance of caritas to early modern communities, introducing the concept of the 'emotional ethic' to explain how neighbourly love become not only a code for moral living but a part of felt experience.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-263851-3
- 0-19-190467-8
- 0-19-263850-5
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