Download or read book The Modulated Scream written by Esther Cohen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an integral, readable account of changing attitudes toward pain in late medieval Europe. Since pain itself cannot be known, the book looks at pain by chronicling what people wrote about it, and what they did with and about that.