Torture and brutality in medieval literature negotiations of national identity
An ugly subject, but one that needs to be treated thoroughly and comprehensively, with a discreet wit and no excessive relish. These needs are richly satisfied in Larissa Tracy's bold and important book. DEREK PEARSALL, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University. Torture - that most notorious aspec...
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Boydell & Brewer
2012
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Rending the flesh : the orthodoxy of torture in hagiography
- Resisting the rod : torture and the anxieties of continental identity
- The matter of the north : Icelandic sagas and cultural autonomy
- The matter of Britain : defining English identity in opposition to torture
- Laughing at pain : the comic uses of torture and brutality
- Medieval torture and early-modern identity
- Conclusion