Discourses of Suffering on Facebook
While I post all the really serious stuff right here on the blog, there are quite a lot of things I don’t feel quite fit here but make for a good post on Facebook. If you don’t already, check...
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Surgical Implements
A couple of weeks ago I posted in answer to a question on Quora about whether there was such a thing as necessary suffering. I began by saying that in an age before anaesthetics this question could...
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Masochism and Anachronism
What does it mean to talk of “masochism” prior to the publication, in 1870, of Sacher-Masoch’s Venus im Pelz [Venus in furs], or of Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s adoption of Masoch’s name to describe the...
View ArticleEating Nasty Things (reposted)
[This is a reposting of a post from 2014 that seems to have spirited itself away. Fortunately I had a copy of the content tucked safely away…] This post is inspired partly by a paper written in 1976,...
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The Moment of Death in Early Modern Europe, c. 1450-1800. Contested Ideals, Controversial Spaces, and Suspicious Objects. In: H-Soz-Kult, 21.02.2021, <www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-95973>. The...
View ArticleAll you ever wanted to know about the Reformation…
… in one 15-minute video! The post All you ever wanted to know about the Reformation… appeared first on Discourses of Suffering.
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Literature and terrorism
The go-to guy for an understanding of the ways in which terrorism has been represented in literature is Peter C. Herman, author of Terrorism and Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and...
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ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚA [Basilika]. The Works of King Charles the Martyr
Another text-searchable PDF file of a seventeenth-century text. Here’s the link. This is the second (1687) edition of a folio publication, over 700 pages long, divided into two parts, with the option...
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