Painful Pleasures

Sadomasochism in Medieval Cultures

Christopher Vaccaro editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Published:12th Jul '22

Should be back in stock very soon

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This timely volume ventures into the subject of sadomasochism in varied aspects of medieval life. Saint’s Lives and mystical treatises provide evidence of failed sadism and empowering masochism. Literary culture in the form of epics and courtly tales preserve stories of eroticised power. These exciting chapters join together to form a picture of medieval culture that is kinky in its practice and deeply psychological at its core.

ISBN: 9781526153333

Dimensions: 216mm x 138mm x 22mm

Weight: 612g

400 pages