Protestant Bodies : Gesture in the English Reformation
by
Arnold Hunt
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1108841716
ISBN-13
9781108841719
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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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
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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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