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Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture (1st Edition) by Robert Mills Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2006 ISBN-10: 1-86189-260-8 / 1861892608 ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-260-7 / 9781861892607 When Marsellus in the film Pulp Fiction asserts, "I'm gonna git medieval on your ass," we know that he is about to bring down a fierce and exacting punishment. Yet is the violence of the Middle Ages that far removed from our modern society? Suspended Animation argues that not only is the stereotype |