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Title The sense of suffering : constructions of physical pain in early modern culture / edited by Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen, Karl A.E. Enenkel
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 501 pages, 16 pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Series Intersections, 1568-1181 ; v. 12
Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 12.
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
Summary The early modern period is a particularly fascinating chapter in the history of pain. This volume investigates early modern constructions of physical pain from a variety of disciplines, including religious, legal and medical history, literary criticism, philosophy, and art history
Analysis Suffering
Culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English; some essays in German
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Subject Pain -- Europe -- History
Pain -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Culture.
Medicine -- History -- 17th century.
Pain -- history
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
Christianity -- history
Culture
History, 17th Century
Literature -- history
culture note.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Medicine.
Culture.
Pain.
Pain -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Leibesstrafe
Folter
Martyrium
Geißelung
Leid
Schmerz
SUBJECT Europe. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631
Europe
Subject Europe.
Leiden <2007>
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Dijkhuizen, Jan Frans van, 1970-
Enenkel, K. A. E
LC no. 2008042099
ISBN 9789047425946
9047425944