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Archiv für Januar 2015
Francesco Casoni and the Rhetorical Forensics of the Body
In early modern Europe, judges read the bodies of victims and suspects through a variety of lenses shaped by popular beliefs, Renaissance notions of physiognomy, and by the study of medicine, classical rhetoric, and natural law theory. This article ex…
Domesticating Cannibalism: Visual Rhetorics of Madness and Maternal Infanticide in Fifteenth-Century Italy
This article examines a miracle, credited to the Dominican saint Vincent Ferrer, in which a „demented“ wife and mother butchers and partially cooks her infant son. In the decades following Vincent’s 1455 canonization, artists like Colantonio and…
The Patronage of the Body: Burial Sites, Identity, and Gender in Fifteenth-Century Venice
This essay examines the social orientation of married and widowed Venetian patricians in the fifteenth century as expressed in their election of final resting places. Comparing the choices of women and men reveals sharp contrasts by gender in burial p…
Thinking through Death: The Politics of the Corpse
This special issue of JMEMS addresses different ways of thinking through death and dying in the medieval and early modern period, including different philosophical and legal positions concerning the relationships between the body and its parts, corpse…
Women on the Edge: Madness, Possession, and Suicide in Early Modern Convents
This essay examines suicidal behaviors in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Catholic convents in light of the new attitudes toward voluntary death emerging across Europe between 1500 and 1700. Focusing on Italy, which housed the greatest number of en…
The Cursed and the Holy Body: Burning Corpses in the Middle Ages
This essay looks at the practice of burning corpses in the Middle Ages. Much research has concentrated on the later medieval period; however, the punishment of burning and its specific motivations and rationales for crimes such as heresy, witchcraft, …
Body Politics: The Criminal Body between Public and Private
The theatrical capital punishments of the early modern period blurred distinctions between private and public and between object and subject in their treatment of the prisoner’s body. Where did these rituals originate? Italian confraternities de…
New Books across the Disciplines
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Review: Thane Gustafson, Wheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia
Review by: Michael Bradshaw
The Journal of Modern History, Volume 86, Issue 4, Page 983-984, December 2014.