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The sense of suffering : constructions of physical pain in early modern culture / edited by Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen, Karl A.E. Enenkel.
LIBRA RB127 .S398 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 12.
- Intersections, 1568-1181 ; v. 12
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Pain--Europe--History.
- Pain.
- Pain--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Pain--history.
- History.
- Europe.
- Christianity--history.
- Culture.
- History, 17th Century.
- History, Early Modern 1451-1600.
- Literature--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Pain--history.
- Europe.
- Christianity--history.
- Culture.
- History, 17th Century.
- History, Early Modern 1451-1600.
- Literature--history.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 501 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
- Language Note:
- In English; some essays in German.
- Contents:
- Introduction : constructions of physical pain in early modern culture / Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen and Karl Enenkel
- Aesthetics and anesthetics : the art of pain management in early modern England / Michael Schoenfeldt
- Whipping boys : Erasmus' rhetoric of corporeal punishment and its discontents / Anita Traninger
- Articulating pain : martyrology, torture and execution in the works of Antonio Gallonio (1556-1605) / Jetze Touber
- Pain as persuasion : the Petrarch master interpreting Petrarch's De remediis / Karl A.E. Enenkel
- Green wounds : pain, anger and revenge in early modern culture / Kristine Steenbergh
- Partakers of pain : religious meanings of pain in early modern England / Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen
- Passio und Compassio : Geisselungsrituale italienischer Bussbruderschaften im späten mittelalter / Andreas Dehmer
- Self-flagellation in the early modern era / Patrick Vandermeersch
- 'Esta pena tan sabrosa' : Teresa of Avila and the figurative arts in early modern Europe / Maria Berbara
- Godly beds of pain : pain in English Protestant manuals (ca. 1550-1650) / Jenny Mayhew
- Experiencing pain in John Donne's Devotions upon emergent occasions (1624) / Mary Ann Lund
- Reading bleeding trees : the poetics of other people's pain in "The legend of holiness" / Joseph Campana
- Bodies in pain and the transcendental organization of history in Joost van den Vondel / Frans Willem Korsten
- Schmerz hat nichts gutes : Spinozas Begriff von Tristitia und Dolor / Anne Tilkorn
- Imagining physical pain in a sixteenth-century Hungarian poisoning trial / Emese Balint
- Severing what was joined together : debates about pain in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic / Lia van Gemert
- Seeing, feeling, judging : pain in the early modern imagination / Stephen Pender.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789004172470
- 9004172475
- OCLC:
- 259716027
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