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The Thief, the Cross, and the Wheel: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
by Merback, Mitchell B
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG (Boards are lightly edgeworn; top of textblock has some bumping that is present in some pages; interior is clean; binding is /VG- (Edgeworn)
- ISBN 10
- 0226520153
- ISBN 13
- 9780226520155
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Hardcover. VG (Boards are lightly edgeworn; top of textblock has some bumping that is present in some pages; interior is clean; binding is solid.)/VG- (Edgeworn). Black cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine; color illustrated DJ with white lettering; 351 pp.; richly illustrated in color and b&w. "Christ's Crucifixion is one of the most recognized images in Western visual culture, and it has come to stand as a universal symbol of both suffering and salvation. But often overlooked in this symbolic language is the fact that ultimately the Crucifixion is a scene of capital punishment. In The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel, Mitchell Merback reconstructs the religious, legal, and historical context of the Crucifixion and of other images of public torture. The result is an account of a time when criminal justice and religion were entirely interrelated and punishment was a visual spectacle devoured by a popular audience."-- Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 194918
- Title
- The Thief, the Cross, and the Wheel: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
- Author
- Merback, Mitchell B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG (Boards are lightly edgeworn; top of textblock has some bumping that is present in some pages; interior is clean; binding is
- Jacket Condition
- VG- (Edgeworn)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0226520153
- ISBN 13
- 9780226520155
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- European Art ; Christ's Crucifixion ; ;
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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About Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- VG
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