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    Towards a History of European Physical Sensibility: Pain in the Later Middle Ages.Esther Cohen - 1995 - Science in Context 8 (1):47-74.
    The ArgumentThe study of pain in a historical context requires a consideration of the cultural context in which pain is sensed and expressed. This paper examines attitudes toward physical pain in the later Middle Ages in Europe from several standpoints: theology, law, and medicine. During the later Middle Ages attitudes toward pain shifted from rejection and a demand for impassivity as a mark of status to a conscious attempt to sense, express, and inflict as much pain as possible. Pain became (...)
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    Knowledge and pain.Esther Cohen (ed.) - 2012 - New York, NY: Rodopi.
    From the publisher: This book is a collection of new and controversial views on pain, its accessibility to understanding and its influence on knowledge. Despite contrary assumptions, the volume argues for the possibility to externalise and communicate pain through language, narrative and social contextualisation. Expressions and responses to pain are historicized and studied within several humanitarian disciplines.
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    Reflections on the Diminishing of the Other's Pain.Esther Cohen - 2012 - In Knowledge and pain. New York, NY: Rodopi. pp. 84--25.
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    Symbols of culpability and the universal language of justice: The ritual of public executions in late medieval Europe.Esther Cohen - 1989 - History of European Ideas 11 (1-6):407-416.
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    James A. Brundage, The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession: Canonists, Civilians, and Courts. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. xvii, 607; black-and-white frontispiece and 4 black-and-white figures. $49. [REVIEW]Esther Cohen - 2010 - Speculum 85 (3):651-652.
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    Julie Orlemanski. Symptomatic Subjects: Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England. (Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science.) ix + 333 pp., notes, index. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. $69.95 (cloth); ISBN 9780812250909. E-book available. [REVIEW]Esther Cohen - 2020 - Isis 111 (4):871-872.