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Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature

Negotiations of National Identity

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Produktbeschreibung

A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Early English Text Society
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781843842880
• ISBN-10: 1843842882
• Artikelnr.: 34392312

Autorenporträt

Larissa Tracy is Professor of Medieval Literature at Longwood University. She has published extensively on medieval violence and its intersections with literature, law, medicine, and social identity.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 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 - Jay Paul Gates Conclusion Select Bibliography