From children's visions of angels to the cancerous belly of a king, this book shows how the body was at the centre of religious experience in seventeenth-century Lutheran culture.
From children's visions of angels to the cancerous belly of a king, this book shows how the body was at the centre of religious experience in seventeenth-century Lutheran culture.
Karin Sennefelt is Professor of History at Stockholm University.
Inhaltsangabe
Chapter 1 All flesh is grass Can bodies be Lutheran? The materiality of the Word Lutheran senses and emotions Real bodies Chapter 2 Bare feet: the body and the weather Weather reports Finding the way The great chill Battering storms The Fall and God's fatty footprint Sweetness of the earth Being human Chapter 3 Tending carnality: spiritual hygiene The worldliness of the body Relieving oneself of emotion Digesting the sacrament Making material bodies Chapter 4 Blushing cheeks: prophecy and possession First sensations Wrestling with the devil In bed and out of body Knowledge, truth and the word The blush of truth Chapter 5 Aching bellies: the body politic The King's illness Putrid intestines and a healthy heart The King and his people wasting away The second coming of Charles The King's belly and the law Body politic Chapter 6 Wide awake: bodies in dissent Stiff necks and angry souls The bounds of inward attention A journey into the wilderness Spiritual and conjugal unions Attention and the separation of body and soul Chapter 7 Down to earth
Chapter 1 All flesh is grass Can bodies be Lutheran? The materiality of the Word Lutheran senses and emotions Real bodies Chapter 2 Bare feet: the body and the weather Weather reports Finding the way The great chill Battering storms The Fall and God's fatty footprint Sweetness of the earth Being human Chapter 3 Tending carnality: spiritual hygiene The worldliness of the body Relieving oneself of emotion Digesting the sacrament Making material bodies Chapter 4 Blushing cheeks: prophecy and possession First sensations Wrestling with the devil In bed and out of body Knowledge, truth and the word The blush of truth Chapter 5 Aching bellies: the body politic The King's illness Putrid intestines and a healthy heart The King and his people wasting away The second coming of Charles The King's belly and the law Body politic Chapter 6 Wide awake: bodies in dissent Stiff necks and angry souls The bounds of inward attention A journey into the wilderness Spiritual and conjugal unions Attention and the separation of body and soul Chapter 7 Down to earth
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