Suspended Animation Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture

Name: Suspended Animation Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture
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ISBN: 9781861892607

ISBN-10: 1861892608

ISBN-13: 9781861892607

Edition: 2005

Authors: Robert Mills

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When Marsellus in the film "Pulp" "Fiction" asserts, "I'm gonna git medieval on your ass," we know that he is about to bring down a fierce and exacting punishment. Yet is the violence of the Middle Ages that far removed from our modern society? "Suspended Animation" argues that not only is the stereotype of uncontrolled violence in the Middle Ages historically misleading, the gulf between modern society and the medieval era is not as immense as we might think. In fact, both medievals and moderns live within a social tension of "suspended animation" engendered by images and acts of violence. Just as in medieval times, Robert Mills argues, it is the threat of violence--not the reality--that…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Reaktion Books, Limited
Publication date: 2/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Robert Mills is a lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at King's College London.



Introduction: Speculum of the Other Middle Ages



Betwixt Heaven and Earth



Skin Show



Eliminating Sodom



Invincible Virgins



Of Martyrs and Men



Hanging with Christ


Afterword: Heaven Bent


References


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Acknowledgements


Photographic Acknowledgements


Index