The first major scholarly investigation into the rich history of
the marked body in the early modern period, this interdisciplinary
study examines multiple forms, uses, and meanings of corporeal
inscription and impression in France and the French Atlantic from
the late sixteenth through early eighteenth centuries. Placing into
dialogue a broad range of textual and visual sources drawn from
areas as diverse as demonology, jurisprudence, mysticism, medicine,
pilgrimage, commerce, travel, and colonial conquest that have
formerly been examined largely in isolation, Katherine Dauge-Roth
demonstrates that emerging theories and practices of signing the
body must be understood in relationship to each other and to the
development of other material marking practices that rose to
prominence in the early modern period. While each chapter brings to
light the particular histories and meanings of a distinct set of
cutaneous marks-devil's marks on witches, demon's marks upon the
possessed, devotional wounds, Amerindian and Holy Land pilgrim
tattoos, and criminal brands-each also reveals connections between
these various types of stigmata, links that were obvious to the
early modern thinkers who theorized and deployed them. Moreover,
the five chapters bring to the fore ways in which corporeal marking
of all kinds interacted dynamically with practices of writing on,
imprinting, and engraving paper, parchment, fabric, and metal that
flourished in the period, together signaling important changes
taking place in early modern society. Examining the marked body as
a material object replete with varied meanings and uses, Signing
the Body: Marks on Skin in Early Modern France shows how the skin
itself became the register of the profound cultural and social
transformations that characterized this era.
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