title: Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature: Negotiations of National Identity
author:  Larissa Tracy 
description: Tracy's insights regarding writers' (often specious) rejections of torture as belonging to an alienated past, a pagan oppressor or a foreign enemy, serve as a timely rejoinder to the ways in which we do exactly the same, in labelling as 'medieval' the brutality that characterizes societies and governments now just as it did then. REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES (T)he ambitious scope of this project is impressive and laudable. (...) a truly impressive (book) in the range of its historical and geographic coverage. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW The value of this book rests not only in its redefinition of medieval attitudes to torture, but also in its consideration of modern attitudes to torture. (.) Its wealth of detail and breadth of coverage ensure that it has the potential to become one of the seminal studies in the field. ENACH: FMRSI REVIEWS Tracey convincingly points to a persistent "literary resistance" to unjust uses of pain for power. (...) Highly recommended. CHOICE Larissa Tracey's book constitutes an illuminating challenge to popular conceptions of the Middle Ages. (...) her study suggests that (...) modern times have more in common with the Middle Ages than most of us might like to believe. TLS Tracy's in-depth study historicizes torture, demonstrating that, as a rare topos of medieval literature, it predominantly articulated a distrust and rejection of violent judicial practices. Whatever its impact on modern-day detractors of medieval civilization may be, this argument should become part of medievalists' further reflection on the place and meaning of cruelty in the Middle Ages. SPECULUM
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  A Tortured Heroes Romance
  JAYNE BLUE
  
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  Jayne Blue
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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination
  or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
  
  CONTENTS
  Chapter One
  Chapter Two
  Chapter Three
  Chapter Four
  Chapter Five
  Chapter Six
  Chapter Seven
  Chapter Eight
  Chapter Nine
  Chapter Ten
  Chapter Eleven
  Chapter Twelve
  Chapter Thirteen
  Chapter Fourteen
  Chapter Fifteen
  Chapter Sixteen
  Chapter Seventeen
  Chapter Eighteen
  Chapter Nineteen
  Chapter Twenty
  