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Stigma by Katherine Dauge-Roth

Investigates the intersecting histories of tattooing, branding, stigmata, baptismal and beauty marks, and the wounds and scars borne by early modern men and women. Examines these forms of dermal marking as manifestations of a powerful and ubiquitous material practice.

“The authors in this volume focus critically on postmodern analyses of race, class, and gender for early modern studies and the history of the bodyAs 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


Stigma offers stimulating reading in the expanding field of skin studies and is a beautifully produced point of reference for accomplished interdisciplinary early modern studies.”

—Karen J. Lloyd Journal of Early Modern History

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.

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ISBN 13 9780271094427
ISBN 10 0271094427
Title Stigma
Author Katherine Dauge-Roth
Series Perspectives On Sensory History
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Pennsylvania State University Press
Year published 2023-03-14
Number of pages 294
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.