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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: Boydell & Brewer
• 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

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