The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel
Subtitle: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Picturing History)
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: March 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9781861890986
Subjects: Capital punishment; Cultural studies; European history: c 500 to c 1500; Medieval art; The historical Jesus; History; History: World; Europe; Medieval
First sentence: The scene is a place of execution (illus. I).