The modulated scream
Subtitle: pain in late medieval culture
By: Esther Cohen.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9780226112671
Subjects: Pain in literature; Pain -- History -- To 1500; Suffering -- History -- To 1500; Torture -- History -- To 1500; Pain -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism; Middle Ages
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Setting the stage; title: Manipulating pain; title: The uses of suffering; title: "Twisting the mind": torture and truth-finding; title: Alleviating pain; title: The script of pain behavior; title: Knowledge from pain; title: The vocabulary and typology of pain; title: The christian history of humanity; title: Human and divine passion; title: Impassibility; title: Conclusion.