Painful pleasures

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Painful pleasures is written by Christopher Vaccaro and published by Manchester University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1526153343 (ISBN 10) and 9781526153340 (ISBN 13).

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.