The World Inside Out : Violence and Imagination in the French Wars of Religion (Hardcover)

Introduction

1. The body of evidence: forensic explorations of sacred bodies
2. Preaching the body of Christ: emotions and the body in the Catholic Reformation
3. Martyrs, monsters and scapegoats: identifying the body in public executions
4. ‘Whose body is it anyway?’: mob violence as a guiltless / victimless crime?
5. A sexual ‘world inside out’: the gendering of the Reformation
6. Two faces / sides of the same coin: representations of the king’s two bodies?
7. Mind over matter: secularizing the body and emotions

Conclusion