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Bad Humor - Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England (Hardcover)
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Bad Humor - Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England (Hardcover)
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Race, in the early modern period, is a concept at the crossroads of
a set of overlapping concerns of lineage, religion, and nation. In
Bad Humor, Kimberly Anne Coles charts how these concerns converged
around a pseudoscientific system that confirmed the absolute
difference between Protestants and Catholics, guaranteed the noble
quality of English blood, and justified English colonial
domination. Coles delineates the process whereby religious error,
first resident in the body, becomes marked on the skin. Early
modern medical theory bound together psyche and soma in mutual
influence. By the end of the sixteenth century, there is a general
acceptance that the soul's condition, as a consequence of religious
belief or its absence, could be manifest in the humoral disposition
of the physical body. The history that this book unfolds describes
developments in natural philosophy in the early part of the
sixteenth century that force a subsequent reconsideration of the
interactions of body and soul and that bring medical theory and
theological discourse into close, even inextricable, contact. With
particular consideration to how these ideas are reflected in texts
by Elizabeth Cary, John Donne, Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare,
Edmund Spenser, Mary Wroth, and others, Coles reveals how science
and religion meet nascent capitalism and colonial endeavor to
create a taxonomy of Christians in Black and White.
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