The sense of suffering : : constructions of physical pain in early modern culture / / edited by Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen, Karl A.E. Enenkel.

The early modern period is a particularly relevant and 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. The...

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Superior document:Intersections, v. 12
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Year of Publication:2009
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 12.
Physical Description:1 online resource (544 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Materials / J. Dijkhuizen and K.A.E. Enenkel
  • 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, Tortureand Execution In The Works Of Antoniogallonio (1556–1605)Jetze Touber / J. Dijkhuizen and K.A.E. Enenkel
  • 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 Bálint
  • 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
  • Index Nominum / J. Dijkhuizen and K.A.E. Enenkel.