The sense of suffering : constructions of physical pain in early modern culture / edited by Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen, Karl A.E. Enenkel.

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

xxiii, 501 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Introduction : constructions of physical pain in early modern culture / Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen and Karl Enenkel -- Aesthetics and anesthetics : the art of pain management in early modern England / Michael Schoenfeldt -- Whipping boys : Erasmus' rhetoric of corporeal punishment and its discontents / Anita Traninger -- Articulating pain : martyrology, torture and execution in the works of Antonio Gallonio (1556-1605) / Jetze Touber -- Pain as persuasion : the Petrarch master interpreting Petrarch's De remediis / Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Green wounds : pain, anger and revenge in early modern culture / Kristine Steenbergh -- Partakers of pain : religious meanings of pain in early modern England / Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen -- Passio und Compassio : Geisselungsrituale italienischer Bussbruderschaften im späten mittelalter / Andreas Dehmer -- Self-flagellation in the early modern era / Patrick Vandermeersch -- 'Esta pena tan sabrosa' : Teresa of Avila and the figurative arts in early modern Europe / Maria Berbara -- Godly beds of pain : pain in English Protestant manuals (ca. 1550-1650) / Jenny Mayhew -- Experiencing pain in John Donne's Devotions upon emergent occasions (1624) / Mary Ann Lund -- Reading bleeding trees : the poetics of other people's pain in "The legend of holiness" / Joseph Campana -- Bodies in pain and the transcendental organization of history in Joost van den Vondel / Frans Willem Korsten -- Schmerz hat nichts gutes : Spinozas Begriff von Tristitia und Dolor / Anne Tilkorn -- Imagining physical pain in a sixteenth-century Hungarian poisoning trial / Emese Balint -- Severing what was joined together : debates about pain in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic / Lia van Gemert -- Seeing, feeling, judging : pain in the early modern imagination / Stephen Pender.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In English; some essays in German.