Contents: 1. Spectacle and martyrdom - bloody suffering, performed suffering and recited suffering in French tragedy (late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries), Christian Biet. 2. The Massacre of the Innocents - infanticide and solace in the seventeenth-century Low Countries, Stijn Bussels and Bram Van Oostveldt . 3. To travel to suffer - towards a reverse anthropology of the early modern colonial body, Karel Vanhaesebrouck. 4. 'I feel your pain' - some reflections on the (literary) perception of pain, Jonathan Sawday. 5. Masochism and the female gaze, John Yamamoto-Wilson. 6. Epicurean tastes - towards a French eighteenth-century criticism of the image of pain, Tomas Macsotay. 7. Wounding realities and 'painful excitements' - real sympathy, the imitation of suffering and the visual arts after Burke's sublime, Aris Sarafianos. 8. Forced witnessing of pain and horror in the context of colonial and religious massacres - the case of the Irish Rebellion, 1641-53, Nicolás Kwiatkowski . 9. Theatrical torture versus dramatic cruelty - subjection through representation or praxis, Frans-Willem Korsten. 10. Palermo's past public executions and their lingering memory, Maria Pia Di Bella. 11. The economics of pain - pain in Dutch stock trade discourses and practices 1600-1750, Inger Leemans.

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