Chapter 1
All flesh is grass
Can bodies be Lutheran?
The materiality of the Word
Lutheran senses and emotions
Real bodies
Chapter 2
Bare feet: the body and the weather
Weather reports
Finding the way
The great chill
Battering storms
The Fall and God’s fatty footprint
Sweetness of the earth
Being human
Chapter 3
Tending carnality: spiritual hygiene
The worldliness of the body
Relieving oneself of emotion
Digesting the sacrament
Making material bodies
Chapter 4
Blushing cheeks: prophecy and possession
First sensations
Wrestling with the devil
In bed and out of body
Knowledge, truth and the word
The blush of truth
Chapter 5
Aching bellies: the body politic
The King’s illness
Putrid intestines and a healthy heart
The King and his people wasting away
The second coming of Charles
The King’s belly and the law
Body politic
Chapter 6
Wide awake: bodies in dissent
Stiff necks and angry souls
The bounds of inward attention
A journey into the wilderness
Spiritual and conjugal unions
Attention and the separation of body and soul
Chapter 7
Down to earth
Biography
Karin Sennefelt is Professor of History at Stockholm University.
