Bodies in Early Modern Religious Dissent

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.

Part 1: Prologue 1. Introduction. Corporeality and Early Modern Religious Dissent 2. Body, Remember: A Plaidoyer for the History of the Bodys Expressiveness Part 2: Body and Soul 3. "God be Praised that I did not Sweat to Death." The Power of the Body and Martin Luthers Concept of Melancholy 4. A Pure Abode for an Unblemished Soul: Medical, Spiritual, and Political Significances of Bodily Characteristics in Johann Christian Senckenbergs 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 Labadies 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 lIncarnations 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 (17301787), Poor Souls, and the Discernment of Spirits