Bodies and Narrativity Across the Early Modern World

Vitus Huber is Full Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Fribourg. He works on Ibero-American colonial history, the history of the body, autobiographical writing, and the history of the night. He has written two monographs on the so-called Conquista and most recently edited a special issue on self-optimization.

• List of Illustrations List of Maps Acknowledgments Vitus Huber: On Influences and Interdependences of Corporeality and Narrativity I. Body, Skin, and Colonial Narratives Aldair Rodrigues: Conflicting Narratives of African Body Markings and the Construction of Black Corporeality in Colonial Brazil (Eighteenth Century) Robert Folger: Epidermal Writing, Colonial Semiosis, and Apocalypticism in Colonial Latin America: The Case of Diego de Landa (1524–1579) II. Corporeal Narratives and Political Power Nadine Amsler: Pregnant Bodies and Their Narratives: The Letters of Empress Maria Theresa to Maria Beatrice d’Este Benjamin Steiner: Body and Power: Narratives of the Body in Early Modern Political History III. Bodies and Autobiographical Writing Stanis Perez: “My soul takes no other alarm than the sensible and corporeal”: Montaigne’s Essays as Bodily Autobiography Effie Botonaki: Early Modern Personal Narratives and “Fraile” Bodies Andreas Würgler: Narrating Her Life as an Amazon: Katharina Franziska von Wattenwyl’s Mémoires (1714) IV. Corporeality in Literature and Theatre Sarah Toulalan: “Childish folly”: Narrating Sexual Acts Among Children in Nicolas Chorier’s Dialogues of Luisa Sigea (1659/60) Nicole Nyffenegger: Reading on the Surface: Skin as Methodological Framework for Shakespeare’s Coriolanus Appendix Bibliography Authors’ Biographies Index