Bodies in early modern religious dissent : naked, veiled, vilified, worshipped / edited by Elisabeth Fischer and Xenia von Tippelskirch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fischer, Elisabeth, 1987- editor.

Tippelskirch, Xenia von, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Routledge studies in early modern religious dissents and radicalism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dissenters, Religious--History--Case studies.

Dissenters, Religious.

Identification (Religion)--Case studies.

Identification (Religion).

Body art--Miscellanea--Case studies.

Body art.

Miscellanea.

History.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

<P><STRONG>Part 1: Prologue</STRONG></P><P></P><P>1. Introduction. Corporeality and Early Modern Religious Dissent </P><I><P>Xenia von Tippelskirch</P></I><P></P><P>2. Body, Remember: A Plaidoyer for the History of the Body's Expressiveness</P><I><P>Gianna Pomata</P></I><P></P><B><P>Part 2: Body and Soul </P><P></P></B><P>3. "God be Praised that I did not Sweat to Death." The Power of the Body and Martin Luther's Concept of Melancholy </P><I><P>Julian Herlitze and Anne-Charlott Trepp</P></I><P></P><P>4. A Pure Abode for an Unblemished Soul: Medical, Spiritual, and Political Significances of Bodily Characteristics in Johann Christian Senckenberg's Journals </P><I><P>Vera Faßhauer</P></I><P></P><P>5. Bloody Bodies: Embodied Moravian Piety in Atlantic World Travel Diaries, 1735-1765 </P><I><P>Benjamin Pietrenka</P></I><B><P></P><P>Part 3: Naked/Veiled </P></B><P></P><P>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 </P><I><P>Robert Jütte</P></I><P></P><P>7. From Quakers to Femen. Practices in Protest Nudity</P><I><P>Jean-Pierre Cavaillé </P></I><P></P><P>8. The Postures and Impostures of Clothing: Jean de Labadie's Sartorial Ambiguities </P><I><P>Julien Goeury</P></I><B><P></P><P>Part 4: Bodies in the Contact Zone </P></B><P></P><P>9. Contaminating Infidels, Burnt Bodies, and Saved Souls: Sodomy and Catholicism in the Early Modern Age </P><I><P>Vincenzo Lavenia</P></I><P></P><P>10. Like Squirrels: Religious Dissent and the Body of the "Savage" in Marie de l'Incarnation's Writings </P><I><P>Michael Leemann</P></I><P></P><P>11. Corpses in the Contact Zone: Holy Bodies as Ambivalent Signifiers in the Seventeenth-Century French Canadian Missions</P><I><P>Sünne Juterczenka</P></I><P></P><B><P>Part 5: Holy Bodies </P></B><P></P><P>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)</P><I><P>Jutta Sperling </P></I><P></P><P>13. Mysticism and Sanctity in the Eighteenth Century: The Stigmatized Body of Maria Columba Schonath (1730-1787), Poor Souls, and the Discernment of Spirits</P><I><P>Elisabeth Fischer </P></I>

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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9781003081395

1003081398

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100039137X

9781000391367

1000391361

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99987932507

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