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Jason Leopold commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Larissa Tracy, Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature Negotiations of National Identity
I appreciate the kind words very much :)
Thank you!
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Jason Leopold commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Larissa Tracy, Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature Negotiations of National Identity
Thanks for being here, DWB! Great to see you!
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Jason Leopold commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Larissa Tracy, Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature Negotiations of National Identity
Thanks for stopping by, Jeff!
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Jason Leopold commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Larissa Tracy, Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature Negotiations of National Identity
Thanks you Bev and Larissa! This has been such a great discussion and two hours flew by!
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Jason Leopold commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Larissa Tracy, Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature Negotiations of National Identity
I have to say that aside from people equating torture with the medieval era I have also observed people equating what they refer to as “true” torture with modern day Middle Eastern countries as well.
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Jason Leopold commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Larissa Tracy, Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature Negotiations of National Identity
I have read that too. It was pretty gruesome.
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Jason Leopold commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Larissa Tracy, Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature Negotiations of National Identity
How was torture used as an experiment in the medieval era? That is, were individuals subjected to certain techniques and those techniques later refined based on the response of the individual being tortured? A study into the Bush administration’s torture conducted by the group Physicians for Human Rights found that “health professionals working for and on behalf of the CIA monitored the interrogations of detainees, collected and analyzed the results of [the] interrogations, and sought to derive generalizable inferences to be applied to subsequent interrogations.”
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Jason Leopold commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Larissa Tracy, Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature Negotiations of National Identity
I imagine that many of your students, Larissa, grew up with being told by our government that torture is a necessary part of fighting the so-called “global war on terror.” In general, what has been their response to the use of torture?
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Jason Leopold commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Larissa Tracy, Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature Negotiations of National Identity
I should add that your book was a true education for me :) It’s difficult to change the narrative when an idea (medieval = torture) is seared into our unconsciousness. How have your students/audiences responded during your lectures? Have you been successful in changing the narrative?
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Jason Leopold commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Larissa Tracy, Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature Negotiations of National Identity
I should add that your book was a true education for me :) It’s difficult to change the narrative when an idea (medieval = torture) is seared into our unconsciousness. How have your students/audiences responded during your lectures? Have you been successful in changing the narrative?
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Jason Leopold commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Larissa Tracy, Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature Negotiations of National Identity
Larissa, can you discuss how you settled on the literary sources for your book (there must be numerous texts out there) and why are the literary sources in general trustworthy to make this argument?
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Jason Leopold commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Larissa Tracy, Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature Negotiations of National Identity
Thanks so much for that response, Larissa.
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Jason Leopold commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Larissa Tracy, Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature Negotiations of National Identity
Larissa, how has your research changed your “interpretation of our own society and cultural norms”?
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Jason Leopold commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Larissa Tracy, Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature Negotiations of National Identity
Ah, my apologies. Thank you for explaining. I’ll fix that up in the intro.
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Jason Leopold commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Larissa Tracy, Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature Negotiations of National Identity
My apologies for misinterpreting and perhaps not articulating it well in the intro. I thought you argued that “quartering” likely started out as a literary motif and then became an “experiment”?
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Jason Leopold commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Larissa Tracy, Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature Negotiations of National Identity
In your research, Larissa, have you been able to trace why we equate “medieval” with systematic torture?
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Jason Leopold commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Larissa Tracy, Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature Negotiations of National Identity
Amazing! There was accountability in the medieval era!
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Jason Leopold commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Larissa Tracy, Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature Negotiations of National Identity
Interesting. The torture techniques implemented by the Bush administration elicited false confessions and the use of such methods did not require two “half proofs.”
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Jason Leopold commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Larissa Tracy, Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature Negotiations of National Identity
But torture was not widespread as we were led to believe. So how was it used and for what purpose?
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Jason Leopold commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Larissa Tracy, Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature Negotiations of National Identity
Thanks, Larissa! How have medieval historians responded to your arguments? And why do you think our perception and understanding of the medieval era has been to associate it directly with torture?
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