Protestant Bodies : Gesture in the English Reformation

Name: Protestant Bodies
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108841719
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ISBN: 9781108841719

by Arnold Hunt

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Format Hardback

Book Series Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History

ISBN-10 1108841716

ISBN-13 9781108841719

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 27th, 2025

Print length 371 Pages

Weight 672 grams

Dimensions 15.90 x 23.70 x 2.70 cms

Product Classification: British & Irish history European history

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What did early modern English Protestant worshippers think that they were doing when they bowed, knelt, or made the sign of the cross? Protestant Bodies explores the history of the English Reformation through the gestures of public worship and reestablishes their central role in early modern England.

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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