Signing the Body: Marks on Skin in Early Modern France

ISBN-13: 9781032083896 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 334 str.

Katherine Dauge-Roth

Opis

The first major investigation into the rich history and ambiguous status of body art, this study surveys varied forms of corporeal writing, imprinting and marking in France in the early modern period.

Spis treści

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

　

Introduction: The Impressionable Body

1 Seals of Satan: Demonologists and the Devil’s Mark

2 Demonic Marks, Divine Stigmata: The Female Body Inscribed

3 The Amerindian Tattoo: Signs of Identity in New France

4 Jerusalem Arms: The European Pilgrim Tattoo

5 Stigma and State Control: Branding the Deviant Body

Conclusion: Lasting Impressions

　

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Katherine Dauge-Roth is Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Bowdoin College.