Title: The modulated scream
Subtitle: pain in late medieval culture
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.
Subjects: History, Pain, Christianity, Suffering, Torture, History and criticism, Religious aspects of Suffering, Medieval Literature, Pain in literature, Religious aspects of Pain, Middle Ages, Medicine, history
Time periods: To 1500