History and Archaeology, History, European History
Performing Bodies in Pain

Performing Bodies in Pain: Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists

Hardback Published on: 27/09/2011
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Synopsis

This text analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in contemporary discourse and late-medieval France, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
  • ISBN: 9780230103863
  • Number of pages: 227
  • Dimensions: 212 x 153 x 19 mm
  • Weight: 366g
  • Languages: English