Early Modern Bodies
4:00pm - 5:00pm /
Wednesday 16th December 2020
- Dr Anna French
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Dr Anna French (Liverpool), ‘“A Seed without a Soul”: Salvation, Reproduction and the Contested Infant in Early Modern England.’
Dr Martin Heale (Liverpool), ‘Exercises tending to godliness? Protestant views on asceticism in sixteenth-century England.’
The religious and cultural shifts of the sixteenth century were tectonic and not merely theological: they had immediate and often intimate impacts. In these papers, Dr French and Dr Heale will explore the ways in which the Protestant Reformation re-mapped the early modern body, understanding corporeality in new ways - and permanently affecting how Western thought envisaged the physical realities and identities of human beings, from reproduction and gender to exertion and virtue.
Dr Martin Heale (Liverpool), ‘Exercises tending to godliness? Protestant views on asceticism in sixteenth-century England.’
The religious and cultural shifts of the sixteenth century were tectonic and not merely theological: they had immediate and often intimate impacts. In these papers, Dr French and Dr Heale will explore the ways in which the Protestant Reformation re-mapped the early modern body, understanding corporeality in new ways - and permanently affecting how Western thought envisaged the physical realities and identities of human beings, from reproduction and gender to exertion and virtue.