SUSPENDED ANIMATION: PAIN, PLEASURE AND PUNISHMENT IN MEDIEVAL CULTURE

From: Comparative Literature | Date: October 1, 2007| Author: Ginsberg, Warren | Copyright information

SUSPENDED ANIMATION: PAIN, PLEASURE AND PUNISHMENT IN MEDIEVAL CULTURE. By Robert Mills. London: Reaktion Books, 2005. 248 p.

In Suspended Animation, Robert Mills seeks to redefine the "middleness" of the Middle Ages. Neither the exotic realm of immured virgins and crazed flagellants conjured by popular imagination nor the symbolic domain reconstructed by scholars, where the hanged thief or martyred saint is less a person than an emblem of Justice or Faith, the Middle Ages for Mills ar...

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