9780226112671, 0226112675, 9780226112671 (alk. paper), and 0226112675 (alk. paper)
Description:
xii, 393 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-362) and index
Contents:
The uses of suffering -- "Twisting the mind": torture and truth-finding -- Alleviating pain -- The script of pain behavior -- The vocabulary and typology of pain -- The Christian history of humanity -- Human and divine passion -- Impassibility
Summary:
This book provides an integral, readable account of changing attitudes toward pain in late medieval Europe. Since pain itself cannot be known, the book looks at pain by chronicling what people wrote about it, and what they did with and about that