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The Pear of Anguish: Torture, Truth and Dark Medievalism

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dc.contributor.authorBishop, Christopher
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-07T22:14:45Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.date.updated2015-12-07T07:34:21Z
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the historical truth of the ‘pear of anguish’ – a common exhibit in European dungeon museums that has recently made its way into the popular imagination by way of TV shows and internet sites. Like the ‘chastity belt’ before
dc.identifier.issn1367-8779
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/17580
dc.provenancehttps://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/9209..."The Accepted Version can be archived in Institutional Repository. CC BY-NC-ND" from SHERPA/RoMEO site (as at 21/01/2021).
dc.publisherSage Publications Inc
dc.rights.licenseCC BY-NC-ND
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.sourceInternational Journal of Cultural Studies
dc.titleThe Pear of Anguish: Torture, Truth and Dark Medievalism
dc.typeJournal article
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
local.bibliographicCitation.issue6
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage602
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage591
local.contributor.affiliationBishop, Christopher, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.authoruidBishop, Christopher, u3414012
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor210306 - Classical Greek and Roman History
local.identifier.absseo950203 - Languages and Literature
local.identifier.ariespublicationu3414012xPUB2
local.identifier.citationvolume17
local.identifier.doi10.1177/1367877914528531
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84907477245
local.identifier.thomsonID000342846500004
local.type.statusAccepted Version

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