Medieval Cruelty : : Changing Perceptions, Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period / / Daniel Baraz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Baraz, Daniel,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 5 halftones, 4 tables

The Middle Ages are often thought of as an era during which cruelty was a major aspect of life, a view that stems from the anti-Catholic polemics of the Reformation. Daniel Baraz makes the striking discovery that the concept of cruelty, which had been an important issue in late antiquity, received l...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Speculating On Cruelty, From Seneca To Montaigne
• Chapter 2. Late Antiquity-The Building Blocks Of A Discourse
• Chapter 3. The Early Middle Ages-An Age Of Silence?
• Chapter 4. The Central Middle Ages-A Renaissance Of Cruelty
• Chapter 5. The Late Middle Ages-Manipulated Images And Structured Emotions
• Chapter 6. The Early Modern Period-Cruelty Transformed
• Conclusion
• Appendix One. Lexical And Biblical Contexts Of Cruelty
• Glossary Of Latin Terms
• Selected Bibliography
• Index