Flogging Others : Corporal Punishment and Cultural Identity from Antiquity to the Present /

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Corporal punishment is often considered a relic of the Western past, a set of thinly veiled barbaric practices largely abandoned in the process of civilization. As G. Geltner argues, however, the infliction of bodily pain was not necessarily typical for earlier societies, nor has it vanished from mo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Geltner, G. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam, Netherlands : AUP, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Flagellation.
HISTORY > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Flagellation > Histoire.
Flagellation > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Historical and Anthropological Approaches
  • Problems of Definition
  • Problems of Interpretation
  • 2. Punishing Bodies
  • Antiquity
  • Later Antiquity: Greece, Rome, and the Sassanian Empire
  • Religion and Corporal Punishment
  • Judaism
  • Islam
  • Christianity
  • Medieval and Early Modern Europe
  • Modernity to the Present.

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