ISBN:
9781526153357
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (401 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.7750902
Keywords:
Civilization, Medieval
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Sadomasochism in art
;
Sadomasochism in literature
;
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
The chapters of Painful pleasures offer new and worthwhile pathways of examination into medieval culture and invite further analyses into the kinkier side of human sexualities, a side that in fact could not be more central to a study of our culture.
Abstract:
Front Matter -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the jouissance of medieval kink -- Part I: Spiritual and penitential (con)texts -- Negotiating power and pleasure in The Book of Margery Kempe -- Land of saints and sadists: the S/M scene(s) in medieval Ireland -- Failed sadism and masochistic martyrdom in Christine de Pizan's Livre de la cité des dames -- The monastic pleasures of frustrated knowledge -- The pains of being pure at heart: sadomasochism in Richard of St Victor's On the four degrees of violent love -- Humiliation as penance in some early penitentials -- Part II: Courtly and secular (con)texts -- 'I am not having what she's having': female sexual (un)pleasure medieval and modern -- Queer consolation: BDSM in Chaucer's The Clerk's tale, sadistic epistemology, and the ends of suffering -- Ideological sadism or cultural enhancement: thirteenth century Mongols in Kievan Rus and Baghdad -- Fetishising the past: Troilus and Criseyde, sadomasochism, and the historophilia of modern BDSM -- 'My warlike grip broke his beating heart': masochism and the deadly embrace in Beowulf ll. 2501-2508a -- Death drive and the maiden: the queerness of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim -- Index.
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