Modulated Scream - Pain in Late Medieval Culture

Zusammenfassung Exploring the varied depictions and descriptions of pain - from martyrdom narratives to practices of torture and surgery - this title attempts to decode this culture of suffering in the Middle Ages. It presents the cacophony of howls emerging from the written record of physicians, torturers, theologians, and mystics.

Product details

• Authors: Esther Cohen, COHEN ESTHER
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2010
• EAN: 9780226112671
• ISBN: 978-0-226-11267-1
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval