Medieval Cruelty
Subtitle: Changing Perceptions, Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: March 20, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780801438172
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; Violence in society; c 1000 CE to c 1500; c 500 CE to c 1000 CE; History: World; General; History - General History; Europe; Medieval; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Civilization, Medieval; Cruelty; History
First sentence: Cruelty is mentioned explicitly in descriptions of violent events, but these references only label particular actions as cruel, and this label does not require a full conceptual construct of cruelty.
Description: "Medieval Cruelty's scope ranges from the writings of Seneca to those of Montaigne and draws from sources that include the views of Western Christians, Eastern Christians, and Muslims. Baraz examines the development of the concept of cruelty in legal texts, philosophical treatises, and other works that attempt to discuss the nature of cruelty. He then considers histories, martyrdom accounts, and literary works in which cruelty is represented rather than discussed directly."--BOOK JACKET.