{"product_id":"painful-pleasures-sadomasochism-in-medieval-cultures-9781526153333","title":"Painful Pleasures: Sadomasochism in Medieval","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: the jouissance of medieval kink - Christopher Vaccaro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Spiritual and penitential (con)texts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Humiliation as penance in some early penitentials - Erin Abraham\u003cbr\u003e2 Land of saints and sadists: the S\u0026amp;M scene(s) in medieval Ireland  - Phillip A. Bernhardt-House\u003cbr\u003e3 Failed sadism and masochistic martyrdom in Christine de Pizan’s \u003ci\u003eLivre de \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ela Cité des Dames \u003c\/i\u003e- Tina-Marie Ranalli\u003cbr\u003e4 The monastic pleasures of frustrated knowledge - Karmen MacKendrick\u003cbr\u003e5 The pains of being pure at heart: sadomasochism in Richard of St. Victor’s \u003ci\u003eOn the four degrees of violent love - \u003c\/i\u003eChristopher Michael Roman\u003cbr\u003e6 Negotiating power and pleasure in the Book of Margery Kempe - Nicole Slipp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Courtly and secular (con)texts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7 I am \u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e having what she’s having: female sexual (un)pleasure medieval and modern - Juliana Dresvina\u003cbr\u003e8 Queer consolation: BDSM in Chaucer’s \u003ci\u003eThe Clerk’s tale\u003c\/i\u003e, sadistic epistemology and the ends of suffering - Masha Raskolnikov\u003cbr\u003e9 Ideological sadism or cultural enhancement: thirteenth-century Mongols in Kievan Rus and Baghdad - Vicky Panossian\u003cbr\u003e10 Fetishizing the past: \u003ci\u003eTroilus and Criseyde\u003c\/i\u003e, sadomasochism, and the historophilia of modern BDSM - Kersti Francis\u003cbr\u003e11 ‘My warlike grip broke his beating heart’: masochism and the deadly embrace in \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e ll. 2501-2508a - Christopher Vaccaro\u003cbr\u003e12 Death drive and the maiden: the queerness of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim - Philip Liston-Kraft\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041018610007,"sku":"9781526153333","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526153333.jpg?v=1750948620","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/painful-pleasures-sadomasochism-in-medieval-cultures-9781526153333","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}