Introduction: Early Modern Bodies – Approaches and Contexts
Sarah Toulalan
PART 1: THE STAGES OF LIFE
Introduction: Bodies and the Stages of Life
Sarah Toulalan
1. Birth, Infancy, and Childhood
Hannah Newton
2. The Perils and Promise of Puberty
Jennifer Evans and Victoria Sparey
3. Adulthood: Marriage, Reproduction, and Family
Elizabeth Foyster
4. Adulthood: Single Lives
Tim Reinke-Williams
5. Old Age
Amie Bolissian
6. Death
Philip Schwyzer
PART 2: ENVIRONMENTS
Introduction: Environments
Sarah Toulalan
7. Humankind and the Natural Environment
Sara Miglietti
8. The Court
Jonathan Dewald
9. The City
Jane Stevens Crawshaw
10. Country Bodies, or Peeking into The Tax Collector’s Office
Amanda L. Capern
11. Distant Bodies: Depicting Europeans in Early Modern China
Yutong Li and He Bian
PART 3: CONTEXTS
Introduction: Contexts
Sarah Toulalan
12. Confusions and Conflations: Sex, Gender, and Changing Notions of the Body
Katherine B. Crawford
13. Social Rank: Plain Russet Coated Captains - The Social Semiotics of Rural Workers’ Clothing, c.1500–1700
Andrew Wood
14. Race: The Early Modern English Case
Mark S. Dawson
15. Religion
Anna French
16. Politics
Benjamin Steiner
17. Medicine
Alanna Skuse
PART 4: IDENTITIES
Introduction: Identities
Sarah Toulalan
18. Humans
Andrew Wells
19. Non-Christian ‘Others’
Jacob Selwood
20. Criminals
Marianna Muravyeva
21. Prostitutes: Identifying the Whore
Kathryn Norberg
22. Witches
Jan Machielsen
23. Rogues and Vagabonds
David Hitchcock
24. Soldiers and Women Warriors
Julia Osman
25. Sodomites and Mollies
David L. Orvis
26. Sapphists and Tribades
Fernanda Molina, translated by Nick Rider
Biography
Sarah Toulalan is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Exeter, UK. She works on histories of the body, sex, fertility and reproduction, and sexuality. She is the author of Imagining Sex: Pornography and Bodies in Seventeenth-Century England (2007).
