Download or read book Texts of the Passion written by Thomas H. Bestul and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1996-12-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He argues that the richly detailed and increasingly graphic descriptions of the torments of Christ in the Passion narratives not only indicate a new concern with the problem of representing pain, but can be linked to the rise of judicial torture in the thirteenth century. Throughout Texts of the Passion, Bestul offers an articulate and theoretically informed remapping of the relationship between vernacular and Latin literature in the Middle Ages.