An edition of The modulated scream
(2010)
The modulated scream
pain in late medieval culture
by Cohen, Esther
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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.
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Pain, Torture, History and criticism, Medieval Literature, Christianity, Suffering, Pain in literature, Middle Ages, HistoryTimes
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The modulated scream: pain in late medieval culture
2010, University of Chicago Press
in English
0226112675 9780226112671
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Table of Contents
The uses of suffering
"Twisting the mind": torture and truth-finding
Alleviating pain
The script of pain behavior
The vocabulary and typology of pain
The Christian history of humanity
Human and divine passion
Impassibility.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-362) and index.
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