Painful Pleasures
Subtitle: Sadomasochism in Medieval Cultures
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2022
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781526153340
Table of contents: title: .; title: Contents; title: Introduction: the jouissance of medieval kink - Christopher Vaccaro; title: Part I: Spiritual and penitential (con)texts; title: 1 Humiliation as penance in some early penitentials - Erin Abraham; title: 2 Land of saints and sadists: the S&M scene(s) in medieval Ireland - Phillip A. Bernhardt-House; title: 3 Failed sadism and masochistic martyrdom in Christine de Pizan's Livre de la Cité des Dames - Tina-Marie Ranalli; title: 4 The monastic pleasures of frustrated knowledge - Karmen MacKendrick; title: 5 The pains of being pure at heart: sadomasochism in Richard of St. Victor's On the four degrees of violent love - Christopher Michael Roman; title: 6 Negotiating power and pleasure in the Book of Margery Kempe - Nicole Slipp; title: Part II: Courtly and secular (con)texts; title: 7 I am not having what she's having: female sexual (un)pleasure medieval and modern - Juliana Dresvina; title: 8 Queer consolation: BDSM in Chaucer's The Clerk's tale, sadistic epistemology and the ends of suffering - Masha Raskolnikov; title: 9 Ideological sadism or cultural enhancement: thirteenth-century Mongols in Kievan Rus and Baghdad - Vicky Panossian; title: 10 Fetishizing the past: Troilus and Criseyde, sadomasochism, and the historophilia of modern BDSM - Kersti Francis; title: 11 'My warlike grip broke his beating heart': masochism and the deadly embrace in Beowulf ll. 2501-2508a - Christopher Vaccaro; title: 12 Death drive and the maiden: the queerness of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim - Philip Liston-Kraft; title: Index; title: .