Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Rending the Flesh: The Orthodoxy of Torture in Hagiography
- 2 Resisting the Rod: Torture and the Anxieties of Continental Identity
- 3 The Matter of the North: Icelandic Sagas and Cultural Antonomy
- 4 The Matter of Britain: Defining English Identity in Opposition to Torture
- 5 Laughing at Pain: The Comic Uses of Torture and Brutality
- 6 Medieval Torture and Early-Modern Identity
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Abbreviations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Rending the Flesh: The Orthodoxy of Torture in Hagiography
- 2 Resisting the Rod: Torture and the Anxieties of Continental Identity
- 3 The Matter of the North: Icelandic Sagas and Cultural Antonomy
- 4 The Matter of Britain: Defining English Identity in Opposition to Torture
- 5 Laughing at Pain: The Comic Uses of Torture and Brutality
- 6 Medieval Torture and Early-Modern Identity
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Torture and Brutality in Medieval LiteratureNegotiations of National Identity, pp. ix - xPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2012