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Signing the Body

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Signing the Body book

Marks on Skin in Early Modern France

Signing the Body

DOI link for Signing the Body

Signing the Body book

Marks on Skin in Early Modern France
ByKatherine Dauge-Roth
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2019
eBook Published 14 November 2019
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429466038
Pages 334 pages
eBook ISBN 9780429466038
SubjectsHumanities, Language & Literature
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Dauge-Roth, K. (2019). Signing the Body. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429466038

The first major scholarly investigation into the rich history of the marked body in the early modern period, this interdisciplinary study examines multiple forms, uses, and meanings of corporeal inscription and impression in France and the French Atlantic from the late sixteenth through early eighteenth centuries. Placing into dialogue a broad range of textual and visual sources drawn from areas as diverse as demonology, jurisprudence, mysticism, medicine, pilgrimage, commerce, travel, and colonial conquest that have formerly been examined largely in isolation, Katherine Dauge-Roth demonstrates that emerging theories and practices of signing the body must be understood in relationship to each other and to the development of other material marking practices that rose to prominence in the early modern period. While each chapter brings to light the particular histories and meanings of a distinct set of cutaneous marks—devil’s marks on witches, demon’s marks upon the possessed, devotional wounds, Amerindian and Holy Land pilgrim tattoos, and criminal brands—each also reveals connections between these various types of stigmata, links that were obvious to the early modern thinkers who theorized and deployed them. Moreover, the five chapters bring to the fore ways in which corporeal marking of all kinds interacted dynamically with practices of writing on, imprinting, and engraving paper, parchment, fabric, and metal that flourished in the period, together signaling important changes taking place in early modern society. Examining the marked body as a material object rife with varied meanings and uses, Signing the Body: Marks on Skin in Early Modern France shows how the skin itself became the register of the profound cultural and social transformations that characterized this era.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |26 pages

Introduction

The impressionable body
WithKatherine Dauge-Roth

chapter 1|46 pages

Seals of Satan

Demonologists and the devil’s mark
WithKatherine Dauge-Roth

chapter 2|48 pages

Demonic marks, divine stigmata

The female body inscribed
WithKatherine Dauge-Roth

chapter 3|50 pages

The Amerindian tattoo

Signs of identity in New France
WithKatherine Dauge-Roth

chapter 4|46 pages

Jerusalem arms

The European pilgrim tattoo
WithKatherine Dauge-Roth

chapter 5|40 pages

Stigma and state control

Branding the deviant body
WithKatherine Dauge-Roth

chapter |16 pages

Conclusion

Lasting impressions
WithKatherine Dauge-Roth
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