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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2003.
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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.