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This book provides an integral, readable account of changing attitudes toward pain in late medieval Europe. Since pain itself cannot be known, the book looks at pain by chronicling what people wrote about it, and what they did with and about that.
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1 edition- Other · English · 2010The University of Chicago Press · 393 pages · 9780226112671
HistoryPainChristianitySufferingTortureHistory and criticismReligious aspects of SufferingMedieval Literature