...suggested central importance compassio in Wolfram's Parzival and proposed the possible influence of Bernardine mysticism. By contrast, in his monograph on Leid Maurer mentioned erbarmde only in conclusion and regarded compassion as marginal to his problem. The author of the present book seeks to rectify this position, first by substantiating Schwietering in exemplifying the nature of compassio in clerical texts of the twelfth century, then by having the novel idea of discussing compassio comparatively, both pictorially (two illuminated psalters produced for the court of Hermann of...

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