Stigma: Marking Skin in the Early Modern World

Contents\nList of Illustrations\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction: Marking Skin: A Cutaneous Collection\nPart I. Marked encounters in America, Asia, and Africa\n1. “Pownced, Pricked, or Paynted”: English Ideas of Tattooing as Indigenous Literacy\n2. Indigenous Taiwanese Skin Marking in Early Modern European and Chinese Eyes\n3. Following the Trail of the Slave Trade: Branding, Skin, and Commodification\nPart II. Marks of faith\n4. Jerusalem Under the Skin: The History of Jerusalem Pilgrimage Tattoos\n5. Stigmata and the Mind-Body Connection\n6. The Invisible Mark: Representing Baptism in Early Modern French Dramaturgy\n7. Rabies and Relics: Cutaneous Marks and Popular Healing in Early Modern Europe\nPart III. Standing out: marks of honor, shame, and beauty\n8. Skin Narratives: Speaking About Wounds and Scars in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus\n9. Branding on the Face in Early Modern Europe\n10. Mouches Volantes: The Enigma of Paste-On Beauty Marks in Seventeenth-Century France\nAfterword: Cultural Inscriptions: Body Marking After 1800\nList of Contributors\nIndex