The World Inside Out: Violence and Imagination in the French Wars of Religion Contributor(s): Racaut, Luc (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138800538 ISBN-13: 9781138800533 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $50.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2023 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - France - History | Modern - 17th Century - History | Social History |
Physical Information: 240 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Chronological Period - 17th Century |
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Publisher Description: The World Inside Out explores how the traumatic events of the French wars of religion transformed ideas about the body and emotions. This book includes analysis of extraordinary bodies, the connection between the body and the sacred, through forensic explorations of saints' bodies, and emphasis on the corporeality of Christ's body in the Eucharist in Catholic preaching. Ordinary bodies on the scaffold, and the emotions that the spectacle of public executions elicited, the femininity and the gendering of bodies and lastly the political and intellectual ramifications of a contingent rejection of corporeality and emotionality as a prerequisite for bringing the wars of religion to an end. |