Performing bodies in pain : medieval and post-modern martyrs, mystics, and artists / Marla Carlson.

  • Carlson, Marla.
Date:
2010
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Physical description

xii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

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Notes

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--City University of New York, 2002.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Feeling torture -- Imagining death -- Enduring ecstasy -- Whipping up community -- Containing chaos -- Conclusion.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    PB.AI.AA2
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  • 9780230103863
  • 0230103863