The Modulated Scream: Pain in Late Medieval Culture

by ECohen (Author)

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Hardcover
2010
$63.69

Exploring the varied depictions and descriptions of pain - from martyrdom narratives to practices of torture and surgery - this title attempts to decode this culture of suffering in the Middle Ages. It presents the cacophony of howls emerging from the written record of physicians, torturers, theologians, and mystics.

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Exploring the varied depictions and descriptions of pain - from martyrdom narratives to practices of torture and surgery - this title attempts to decode this culture of suffering in the Middle Ages. It presents the cacophony of howls emerging from the written record of physicians, torturers, theologians, and mystics.

$63.69

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Edition: 1
Publisher: Chicago University Press
Published: 25 May 2010
ISBN 10: 0226112675
ISBN 13: 9780226112671

The Modulated Scream: Pain in Late Medieval Culture

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$63.69

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$63.69

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