Suspended Animation
Subtitle: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: February 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781861892607
Subjects: Cultural studies; Social history; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Medieval World History (Circa 450 - Circa 1450); History; History - General History; History: World; Medieval; Techniques - Painting; History / Medieval
First sentence: The overwhelming impression conveyed by a visit to some of Britain's most popular tourist attractions, such as the Tower of London and the London Dungeon is that punishment in the Middle Ages was a heterogeneous affair: beheadings, mutilations, burnings, breaking on the wheel, being boiled alive in vats of oil.