This essay explores the various ways in which medieval Christian culture conceptualized and represented pain and the spectacle of suffering, with a particular focus on the representations of the suffering of Christ and its impact on the perception and configuration of the practice of capital punishment.
The essay will appear in F.M. Crasta, A. Lamberti (eds), La cognizione del dolore. Dall’età antica alle pratiche contemporanee (Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2021).