[PDF.33vl] The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Picturing History)

The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Picturing History)

[PDF.oo18] The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Picturing History)

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Worth your while ...|By GDP|Most good non-fiction history books succeed on several levels, that is they communicate clearly and credibly on their subject, but also suggest or prompt questions about our contemporary world. 'The Thief, the Cross, and the Wheel' is a good example.

First, the author's treatment of his subject is impressive in scope and in depth. It is no|From Library Journal|Pain and suffering are popular motifs in Western art. Indeed, the predominant Christian theme in medieval art is the Crucifixion of Christ. To understand better this ritualization of pain and death, Merback (art history, DePauw Univ.) attemp

When spectators in the Middle Ages examined images of Christ's crucifixion on Mount Calvary, did they ever consider them as representations of capital punishment? In The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel Mitchell Merback contends that they did, and traces out the extraordinary connections between religious devotion, bodily pain, criminal justice and judicial spectatorship to explain why this was so.
The author's focus is not on the crucified Christ as he was represente...

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