%0 Journal Article %A Benjamin A. Saltzman %D 2022 %C Berlin, Germany %I Peter Lang Verlag %J Mediaevistik %@ 2199-806X %N 1 %V 34 %T Assaf Pinkus, . University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021, xii, 178 pp., 50 color and 87 b/w ill. %R 10.3726/med.2021.01.112 %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1239002 %X It is a strange experienced to be so intellectually fascinated by the topic of a book, but so repelled by its content. The detailed descriptions and (generously reproduced) images of tortured bodies in Assaf Pinkus’