Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature - Negotiations of National Identity

A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality.

List of contents

Introduction
Rending the Flesh: The Orthodoxy of Torture in Hagiography
Resisting the Rod: Torture and the Anxieties of Continental Identity
The Matter of the North: Icelandic Sagas and Cultural Autonomy
The Matter of Britain: Defining English Identity in Opposition to Torture
Laughing at Pain: The Comic Uses of Torture and Brutality
Medieval Torture and Early-Modern Identity - Jay Paul Gates
Conclusion
Select Bibliography

About the author

Larissa Tracy

Product details

• Authors: Automobile Association, Jay Paul Gates, Larissa Tracy, Larissa (Royalty Account) Tracy
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2015
• EAN: 9781843843931
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-393-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 472 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies