Stigma

Katherine Dauge-Roth is Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Bowdoin College. She is the author of Signing the Body: Marks on Skin in Early Modern France.Craig Koslofsky is Professor of History and Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Evening’s Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe and The Reformation of the Dead: Death and Ritual in Early Modern Germany, 1450–1700, and the coeditor of A German Barber-Surgeon in the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Seventeenth-Century Journal of Johann Peter Oettinger.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionMarking Skin: A Cutaneous CollectionKatherine Dauge-Roth and Craig KoslofskyPart I: Marked Encounters in America, Asia, and Africa1. “Pownced, Pricked, or Paynted”: English Ideas of Tattooing as Indigenous LiteracyMairin Odle2. Indigenous Taiwanese Skin Marking in Early Modern European and Chinese EyesXiao Chen3. Following the Trail of the Slave Trade: Branding, Skin, and CommodificationKatrina H. B. Keefer and Matthew S. HopperPart II: Marks of Faith4. Jerusalem Under the Skin: The History of Jerusalem Pilgrimage TattoosMordechay Lewy5. Stigmata and the Mind-Body ConnectionAllison Stedman6. The Invisible Mark: Representing Baptism in Early Modern French DramaturgyAna Fonseca Conboy7. Rabies and Relics: Cutaneous Marks and Popular Healing in Early Modern EuropeKatherine Dauge-RothPart III: Standing Out: Marks of Honor, Shame, and Beauty8. Skin Narratives: Speaking About Wounds and Scars in Shakespeare’s CoriolanusNicole Nyffenegger9. Branding on the Face in Early Modern EuropeCraig Koslofsky10. Mouches Volantes: The Enigma of Paste-On Beauty Marks in Seventeenth-Century FranceClaire GoldsteinAfterwordCultural Inscriptions: Body Marking After 1800Peter S. EricksonList of ContributorsIndex

“The authors in this volume focus critically on postmodern analyses of race, class, and gender for early modern studies and the history of the body. As a result, Stigma highlights a fresh history of skin that does not center solely on racial identity of the time but instead illuminates the changing, rather than fixed, understandings of skin during the early modern era.”—Andrew Kettler, author of The Smell of Slavery: Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World