Medieval Cruelty: Changing Perceptions, Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period.

 

BARAZ, Daniel.

2019

“Daniel Baraz makes the striking discovery that the concept of cruelty, which had been an important issue in late antiquity, received little attention in the medieval period before the thirteenth century. From that point on, interest in cruelty increased until it reached a peak late in the sixteenth century.”