Stigma marking skin in the early modern world / edited by Katherine Dauge-Roth and Craig Koslofsky.

Other author Dauge-Roth, Katherine.
Other author Koslofsky, Craig.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoUniversity Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]
Descriptionxii, 282 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
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SeriesPerspectives on sensory history
Perspectives on sensory history. ^A1473588
Contents Introduction : marking skin : a cutaneous collection / Katherine Dauge-Roth and Craig Koslofsky -- "Pownced, pricked, or paynted" : English ideas of tattooing as indigenous literacy / Mairin Odle -- Indigenous Taiwanese skin marking in early modern European and Chinese eyes / Xiao Chen -- Following the trail of the slave trade : branding, skin, and commodification / Katrina H. B. Keefer and Matthew S. Hopper -- Jerusalem under the skin : the history of Jerusalem pilgrimage tattoos / Mordechay Lewy -- Stigmata and the mind-body connection / Allison Stedman -- The invisible mark : representing baptism in early modern French dramaturgy / Ana Fonseca Conboy -- Rabies and relics : cutaneous marks and popular healing in early modern Europe / Katherine Dauge-Roth -- Skin narratives : speaking about wounds and scars in Shakespeare's Coriolanus / Nicole Nyffenegger -- Branding on the face in early modern Europe / Craig Koslofsky -- Mouches volantes : the enigma of paste-on beauty marks in seventeenth-century France / Claire Goldstein -- Afterword : cultural inscriptions : body marking after 1800 / Peter Erickson.
Abstract "Investigates the intersecting histories of tattooing, branding, stigmata, baptismal and beauty marks, and the wounds and scars borne by early modern men and women. Examines these forms of dermal marking as manifestations of a powerful and ubiquitous material practice"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2022046248
ISBN9780271094427 (hardback)

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