Bodies in Early Modern Religious Dissent

Naked, Veiled, Vilified, Worshiped
Herausgeber: Fischer, Elisabeth; Tippelskirch, Xenia von

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Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on bodies and conflicts over bodily practices. It will appeal to scholars and students of early modern Europe and the Americas, as well as those interested in religious and gender history, and the history of dissent.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 585g
• ISBN-13: 9780367533212
• ISBN-10: 0367533219
• Artikelnr.: 69986192

Autorenporträt

Elisabeth Fischer is an archivist at the state archive in Stuttgart, Germany. Her research interests include the history of early modern Catholicism, especially of religious orders, as well as gender and body history. Xenia von Tippelskirch teaches Renaissance history at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. Her research interests include the histories of religious dissent in early modern Europe, reading, knowledge transmission, gender, and material culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Prologue 1. Introduction. Corporeality and Early Modern Religious
Dissent 2. Body, Remember: A Plaidoyer for the History of the Body's
Expressiveness Part 2: Body and Soul 3. "God be Praised that I did not
Sweat to Death." The Power of the Body and Martin Luther's Concept of
Melancholy 4. A Pure Abode for an Unblemished Soul: Medical, Spiritual, and
Political Significances of Bodily Characteristics in Johann Christian
Senckenberg's Journals 5. Bloody Bodies: Embodied Moravian Piety in
Atlantic World Travel Diaries, 1735-1765 Part 3: Naked/Veiled 6. "[...]
that we strip them all bare and naked" (Hans Folz) - Nakedness as a
Physical Practice in the Religious Dissent between Jews and Christians in
the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times 7. From Quakers to Femen.
Practices in Protest Nudity 8. The Postures and Impostures of Clothing:
Jean de Labadie's Sartorial Ambiguities Part 4: Bodies in the Contact Zone
9. Contaminating Infidels, Burnt Bodies, and Saved Souls: Sodomy and
Catholicism in the Early Modern Age 10. Like Squirrels: Religious Dissent
and the Body of the "Savage" in Marie de l'Incarnation's Writings 11.
Corpses in the Contact Zone: Holy Bodies as Ambivalent Signifiers in the
Seventeenth-Century French Canadian Missions Part 5: Holy Bodies 12.
Observing the Observant Self: Female Reader Portraits, Marian Imagery, and
the Emergence of Skepticism in Illuminated Prayer Books and Devotional Art
(ca. 1475-1566) 13. Mysticism and Sanctity in the Eighteenth Century: The
Stigmatized Body of Maria Columba Schonath (1730-1787), Poor Souls, and the
Discernment of Spirits