Performing Bodies in Pain: Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists

by Marla Carlson

This text analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in contemporary discourse and late-medieval France, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.

Genres: Nonfiction

239 pages, Paperback

First published July 15, 2010