Robert Mills, Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture.(Book review)

Medium Aevum | March 22, 2007| | Copyright

Robert Mills, Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture (London: Reaktion Books, 2005). 248 pp. ISBN 1-86189-260-8. 19.95 [pounds sterling].

Robert Mills's new book is concerned with the zone between life and death represented in medieval art through depictions of judicial punishment, specifically torture but also death--the person depicted, criminal or saint, is seen as suspended between states of being. The motif of suspension is present at a deeper level than this, however; Mills explores a 'medieval aesthetic of suspense' (p. 18) ...

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