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The sense of suffering : constructions of physical pain in early modern culture /

The early modern period is a particularly fascinating chapter in the history of pain. This volume investigates early modern constructions of physical pain from a variety of disciplines, including religious, legal and medical history, literary criticism, philosophy, and art history.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dijkhuizen, Jan Frans van, 1970-, Enenkel, K. A. E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Colección:Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 12.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : constructions of physical pain in early modern culture / Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen and Karl Enenkel
  • Aesthetics and anesthetics : the art of pain management in early modern England / Michael Schoenfeldt
  • Whipping boys : Erasmus' rhetoric of corporeal punishment and its discontents / Anita Traninger
  • Articulating pain : martyrology, torture and execution in the works of Antonio Gallonio (1556-1605) / Jetze Touber
  • Pain as persuasion : the Petrarch master interpreting Petrarch's De remediis / Karl A.E. Enenkel
  • Green wounds : pain, anger and revenge in early modern culture / Kristine Steenbergh
  • Partakers of pain : religious meanings of pain in early modern England / Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen
  • Passio und Compassio : Geisselungsrituale italienischer Bussbruderschaften im späten mittelalter / Andreas Dehmer
  • Self-flagellation in the early modern era / Patrick Vandermeersch
  • 'Esta pena tan sabrosa' : Teresa of Avila and the figurative arts in early modern Europe / Maria Berbara
  • Godly beds of pain : pain in English Protestant manuals (ca. 1550-1650) / Jenny Mayhew
  • Experiencing pain in John Donne's Devotions upon emergent occasions (1624) / Mary Ann Lund
  • Reading bleeding trees : the poetics of other people's pain in "The legend of holiness" / Joseph Campana
  • Bodies in pain and the transcendental organization of history in Joost van den Vondel / Frans Willem Korsten
  • Schmerz hat nichts gutes : Spinozas Begriff von Tristitia und Dolor / Anne Tilkorn
  • Imagining physical pain in a sixteenth-century Hungarian poisoning trial / Emese Balint
  • Severing what was joined together : debates about pain in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic / Lia van Gemert
  • Seeing, feeling, judging : pain in the early modern imagination / Stephen Pender.