The modulated scream pain in late medieval culture
Introduction -- Setting the stage -- Manipulating pain -- The uses of suffering -- "Twisting the mind": torture and truth-finding -- Alleviating pain -- The script of pain behavior -- Knowledge from pain -- The vocabulary and typology of pain -- The christian history of humanity -- Human a...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Chicago u.a.
Univ. of Chicago Press
2010
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction -- Setting the stage -- Manipulating pain -- The uses of suffering -- "Twisting the mind": torture and truth-finding -- Alleviating pain -- The script of pain behavior -- Knowledge from pain -- The vocabulary and typology of pain -- The christian history of humanity -- Human and divine passion -- Impassibility -- Conclusion. 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 Introduction -- Setting the stage -- Manipulating pain -- The uses of suffering -- "Twisting the mind": torture and truth-finding -- Alleviating pain -- The script of pain behavior -- Knowledge from pain -- The vocabulary and typology of pain -- The Christian history of humanity -- Human and divine passion -- Impassibility -- Conclusion |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. 329 - 362 |
| Beschreibung: | XIII, 393 S. Ill. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0226112675 0-226-11267-5 9780226112671 978-0-226-11267-1 |