Protestant Bodies by Arnold Hunt
Religious worship is an embodied act, consisting not of words alone, but of words and gestures. But what did early modern English Protestants think they were doing when they went through the motions of worship? In Protestant Bodies, Arnold Hunt argues that the English Reformation was a gestural reformation that redefined the postures and motions of the body. Drawing on a rich array of primary sources, he shows how gestures inherited from the medieval liturgy took on new meanings within a drastically altered ritual landscape, and became central to the enforcement of religious uniformity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Protestant Bodies presents a challenging new interpretation of the English Reformation as a series of experiments in shaping and remaking the body, both individual and collective, with consequences that still persist today.-
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Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England
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Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England
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Queenship and Political Discourse in the Elizabethan Realms
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Female Friends and the Making of Transatlantic Quakerism, 16501750
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Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 15501640
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The Blind Devotion of the People
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John Skelton and the Politics of the 1520s
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Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
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The Chief Governors
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The Early Elizabethan Polity
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London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II
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Intelligence and Espionage in the Reign of Charles II, 16601685
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The 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Early Modern England
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Georgian Monarchy
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The Family of Love in English Society, 15501630
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Reason and Religion in the English Revolution
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Godly Kingship in Restoration England
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England's Second Reformation
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Print and Public Politics in the English Revolution
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The Common Peace
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William III and the Godly Revolution
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Europe and the Making of England, 16601760
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Prayer Book and People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England
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Imprisonment in Early Modern England
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Frenzy in Early Modern England
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Religion, Rebellion and Violence in Ireland, c. 1603-1649
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Gender and Policing in Early Modern England
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Godly Reading
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Reformation Unbound
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John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture
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Unquiet Lives
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The Politics and Culture of Honour in Britain and Ireland, 15411641
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The Reconstruction of the Church of Ireland
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Religion and the Book in Early Modern England
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Martial Power and Elizabethan Political Culture
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Print Culture and the Early Quakers
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The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England
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Hunting and the Politics of Violence before the English Civil War
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The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics
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Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State
'The advent of Protestantism is conventionally understood to have initiated a shift from a (premodern) form of religiosity that focused primarily on practice and liturgy to a (modern) conception of religion that denigrated 'empty' ritual in favor a logo-centric and interior religiosityThis book makes an important contribution to this narrative by drawing attention to the ongoing importance of gesture in the English Reformation. … It not only shows us what the English Reformation can reveal about the importance of gesture in early modern religion but how attending to gesture can also shed new light on the history of the English Reformation.' Karl Gunther, The American Historical Review
Arnold Hunt is Lecturer in Early Modern Palaeography at Durham University. His research interests lie in the social, cultural, and religious history of Britain between 1500–1900. His previous book The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and their Audiences 1590–1640 (Cambridge, 2010) was awarded the Whitfield Prize by the Royal Historical Society.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781108795241 |
| Title | Protestant Bodies |
| Author | Arnold Hunt |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Early Modern British History |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2026-10-22 |
| Number of pages | 372 |
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