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Bodies in Early Modern Religious Dissent: Naked, Veiled, Vilified, Worshiped book cover

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Bodies in Early Modern Religious Dissent Naked, Veiled, Vilified, Worshiped

Edited By Elisabeth Fischer, Xenia von Tippelskirch Copyright 2021
290 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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In early modern times, religious affiliation was often communicated through bodily practices. Despite various attempts at definition, these practices remained extremely fluid and lent themselves to individual appropriation and to evasion of church and state control. Because bodily practices prompted much debate, they serve as a useful starting point for examining denominational divisions,... Read more

Part 1: Prologue

1. Introduction. Corporeality and Early Modern Religious Dissent

Xenia von Tippelskirch

2. Body, Remember: A Plaidoyer for the History of the Body’s Expressiveness

Gianna Pomata

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

Julian Herlitze and Anne-Charlott Trepp

4. A Pure Abode for an Unblemished Soul: Medical, Spiritual, and Political Significances of Bodily Characteristics in Johann Christian Senckenberg’s Journals

Vera Faßhauer

5. Bloody Bodies: Embodied Moravian Piety in Atlantic World Travel Diaries, 1735-1765

Benjamin Pietrenka

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

Robert Jütte

7. From Quakers to Femen. Practices in Protest Nudity

Jean-Pierre Cavaillé

8. The Postures and Impostures of Clothing: Jean de Labadie’s Sartorial Ambiguities

Julien Goeury

Part 4: Bodies in the Contact Zone

9. Contaminating Infidels, Burnt Bodies, and Saved Souls: Sodomy and Catholicism in the Early Modern Age

Vincenzo Lavenia

10. Like Squirrels: Religious Dissent and the Body of the "Savage" in Marie de l’Incarnation’s Writings

Michael Leemann

11. Corpses in the Contact Zone: Holy Bodies as Ambivalent Signifiers in the Seventeenth-Century French Canadian Missions

Sünne Juterczenka

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)

Jutta Sperling

13. Mysticism and Sanctity in the Eighteenth Century: The Stigmatized Body of Maria Columba Schonath (1730–1787), Poor Souls, and the Discernment of Spirits

Elisabeth Fischer

Biography

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.

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