The modulated scream : pain in late medieval culture /
Cohen, Esther,1947 December 21-
Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press,
2009, c2010.
This book provides an integral, readable account of changing attitudes toward pain in late medieval Europe. Since pain itself cannot be known, the book looks at pain by chronicling what people wrote about it, and what they did with and about that.
This book provides an integral, readable account of changing attitudes toward pain in late medieval Europe. Since pain itself cannot be known, the book looks at pain by chronicling what people wrote about it, and what they did with and about that.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pain in literature.
Pain
Suffering
Torture
Pain
Suffering
Literature, Medieval
Middle Ages.