The modulated scream

By Cohen, Esther

Subjects: Medieval Literature, Pain, Religious aspects of Pain, Medicine, history, Torture, Pain in literature, Middle Ages, History and criticism, Christianity, History, Religious aspects of Suffering, Suffering

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.