Early Modern Bodies

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-8153-4752-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc

Buch, Englisch, 676 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Early Modern Themes

Early Modern Bodies is a wide-ranging and detailed introduction to a variety of different approaches to and perspectives on bodies in the early modern period, circa 1500–1750.

The collection guides readers through an examination of bodies at every stage of life, from birth to death and the afterlife, as they are situated in different social, cultural and geographical contexts. It considers the bodies of numerous potential identities, such as criminals, prostitutes, witches, soldiers, and non-conforming sexualities. Though its focus is primarily Western Europe, the volume also pays attention to the wider world, especially with respect to developing ideas about race and ‘other’ bodies in what has been dubbed an ‘age of exploration.’ Chapters are also dedicated to analysing what it was to be human, how humankind was considered in relation to the natural world, and how those adhering to non-Christian faiths were thought about.

This book is an accessible, essential text for students and established scholars alike who are interested in the history of the body, early modern history, and gender and sexuality.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Advanced and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Toulalan, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Early Modern Bodies - Approaches and Contexts  PART 1: THE STAGES OF LIFE Introduction: Bodies and the stages of life 1. Birth, Infancy, and Childhood 2. The Perils and Promise of Puberty  3. Adulthood: Marriage, Reproduction and Family 4. Adulthood: Single Lives 5. Old Age 6. Death  PART 2: ENVIRONMENTS Introduction: Environments  7. Humankind and the Natural Environment  8. The Court 9. The City 10. Country Bodies, or Peeking into The Tax Collector’s Office 11. Distant Bodies: Depicting Europeans in Early Modern China  PART 3: CONTEXTS Introduction: Contexts  12. Confusions and Conflations: Sex, Gender, and Changing Notions of the Body 13. Social Rank: Plain Russet Coated Captains - the Social Semiotics of Rural Workers’ Clothing, c.1500-1700 14. Race: The Early Modern English Case 15. Religion 16. Politics 17. Medicine  PART 4: IDENTITIES Introduction: Identities  18. Humans 19. Non-Christian ‘Others’ 20. Criminals 21. Prostitutes: Identifying the Whore 22. The Body of the Witch 23. Rogues and Vagabonds 24. Soldiers and Women Warriors 25. Sodomites and Mollies 26. Sapphists and Tribades

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Toulalan is Associate 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).