The Modulated Scream by Esther Cohen

The University of Chicago Press
The Modulated Scream by Esther Cohen
The Modulated Scream by Esther Cohen
Product Specifications
  • Title: The Modulated Scream by Esther Cohen
  • Author: Esther Cohen
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No. of pages: 384
  • Dimensions (approx. mm): 235 x 160 x 30

Product Description

Exploring the varied depictions and descriptions of pain - from martyrdom narratives to practices of torture and surgery - this title attempts to decode this culture of suffering in the Middle Ages. It presents the cacophony of howls emerging from the written record of physicians torturers theologians and mystics.