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Medieval Cruelty Changing Perceptions, Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period /

The Middle Ages are often thought of as an era during which cruelty was a major aspect of life, a view that stems from the anti-Catholic polemics of the Reformation. Daniel Baraz makes the striking discovery that the concept of cruelty, which had been an important issue in late antiquity, received l...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Baraz, Daniel
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Speculating on cruelty, from Seneca to Montaigne
  • Late antiquity, the building blocks of a discourse
  • The early Middle Ages, an age of silence?
  • The central Middle Ages, a renaissance of cruelty
  • The late Middle Ages, manipulated images and structured emotions
  • The early modern period, cruelty transformed.