Painful Pleasures

Sadomasochism in Medieval Cultures

Christopher Vaccaro (Senior Lecturer of English literature)

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English

Manchester University Press
12 July 2022

Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Medieval history; Sociology: sexual relations

Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

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.

Edited by: Christopher Vaccaro (Senior Lecturer of English literature)
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 612g
ISBN: 9781526153333
ISBN 10: 1526153335
Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 12 July 2022
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: the jouissance of medieval kink - Christopher Vaccaro Part I: Spiritual and penitential (con)texts 1 Humiliation as penance in some early penitentials - Erin Abraham 2 Land of saints and sadists: the S&M scene(s) in medieval Ireland - Phillip A. Bernhardt-House 3 Failed sadism and masochistic martyrdom in Christine de Pizan’s Livre de la Cité des Dames - Tina-Marie Ranalli 4 The monastic pleasures of frustrated knowledge - Karmen MacKendrick 5 The pains of being pure at heart: sadomasochism in Richard of St. Victor’s On the four degrees of violent love - Christopher Michael Roman 6 Negotiating power and pleasure in the Book of Margery Kempe - Nicole Slipp Part II: Courtly and secular (con)texts 7 I am not having what she’s having: female sexual (un)pleasure medieval and modern - Juliana Dresvina 8 Queer consolation: BDSM in Chaucer’s The Clerk’s tale, sadistic epistemology and the ends of suffering - Masha Raskolnikov 9 Ideological sadism or cultural enhancement: thirteenth-century Mongols in Kievan Rus and Baghdad - Vicky Panossian 10 Fetishizing the past: Troilus and Criseyde, sadomasochism, and the historophilia of modern BDSM - Kersti Francis 11 ‘My warlike grip broke his beating heart’: masochism and the deadly embrace in Beowulf ll. 2501-2508a - Christopher Vaccaro 12 Death drive and the maiden: the queerness of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim - Philip Liston-Kraft Index -- .

Christopher Vaccaro is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature at the University of Vermont