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Painful Pleasures Sadomasochism in Medieval Cultures.
The chapters of Painful pleasures offer new and worthwhile pathways of examination into medieval culture and invite further analyses into the kinkier side of human sexualities, a side that in fact could not be more central to a study of our culture.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2022.
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| Colección: | Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture Series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the jouissance of medieval kink
- Part I: Spiritual and penitential (con)texts
- Negotiating power and pleasure in The Book of Margery Kempe
- Land of saints and sadists: the S/M scene(s) in medieval Ireland
- Failed sadism and masochistic martyrdom in Christine de Pizan's Livre de la cité des dames
- The monastic pleasures of frustrated knowledge
- The pains of being pure at heart: sadomasochism in Richard of St Victor's On the four degrees of violent love
- Humiliation as penance in some early penitentials
- Part II: Courtly and secular (con)texts
- 'I am not having what she's having': female sexual (un)pleasure medieval and modern
- Queer consolation: BDSM in Chaucer's The Clerk's tale, sadistic epistemology, and the ends of suffering
- Ideological sadism or cultural enhancement: thirteenth century Mongols in Kievan Rus and Baghdad
- Fetishising the past: Troilus and Criseyde, sadomasochism, and the historophilia of modern BDSM
- 'My warlike grip broke his beating heart': masochism and the deadly embrace in Beowulf ll. 2501-2508a
- Death drive and the maiden: the queerness of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
- Index