The Sense of Suffering ─ Constructions of Physical Pain in Early Modern Culture

The early modern period is a particularly fascinating chapter in the history of pain. This volume investigates early modern constructions of physical pain from a variety of disciplines, including religious, legal and medical history, literary criticism, philosophy, and art history.

Karl A.E. Enenkel is Professor of Neo-Latin Literature at Leiden University, director of the research group "The New Management of Knowledge in the Early Modern Period", funded by the Netherlands Organization for Academic Research (NWO), and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He has published extensively on international Humanism, the reception of Classical Antiquity, the history of ideas, literary genres and emblem studies.Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen is lecturer in English literature and research fellow at the University of Leiden. He is the author of Devil Theatre: Demonic Possession and Exorcism in English Renaissance Drama, 1558-1642 (Cambridge: 2007). His current project, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Academic Research (NWO), investigates perceptions of physical pain in early modern England.