Sugg, Richard (Author)
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, human physiology was mediated by the vital spirits. These fine vapors of heated blood and air not only linked body and soul, but were central to processes and ideas of generation, sight, mind-body unity, muscle and nerve action, and emotion. An ascending hierarchy of spirits rose from the liver, to the heart, up into the brain. This essay examines the distinctive role that bodily spirits played in Protestant religious experience, focusing especially on moments of particular interior drama. At a time when some Christians believed that the Spirit of God could fuse with these vital spirits in one's heart, the implications for “moments of grace” in Protestant piety are highly intriguing. The same can be said, mutatis mutandis, for moments when a “demonic” thought is suspected to have invaded the heart or brain.
...More
Article
Stolberg, Michael;
(2012)
“Abhorreas Pinguedinem”: Fat and Obesity in Early Modern Medicine (c. 1500--1750)
(/isis/citation/CBB001221620/)
Thesis
Wolford, Kathryn;
(2012)
Infective Discourse: Printed Debates Concerning the Spread of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England
(/isis/citation/CBB001567364/)
Article
Strocchia, Sharon T.;
(2015)
Women on the Edge: Madness, Possession, and Suicide in Early Modern Convents
(/isis/citation/CBB001422557/)
Article
Sarah Toulalan;
(2016)
‘Elderly years cause a Total dispaire of Conception’: Old Age, Sex and Infertility in Early Modern England
(/isis/citation/CBB965755183/)
Article
Orland, Barbara;
Spary, E. C.;
(2012)
Introduction
(/isis/citation/CBB001221614/)
Book
Long, Kathleen P.;
(2010)
Gender and Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Culture
(/isis/citation/CBB001220293/)
Article
Clericuzio, Antonio;
(2012)
Chemical and Mechanical Theories of Digestion in Early Modern Medicine
(/isis/citation/CBB001221616/)
Book
Fernández, Enrique;
(2015)
Anxieties of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain
(/isis/citation/CBB001422602/)
Thesis
Berns, Andrew;
(2011)
The Natural Philosophy of the Biblical World: Jewish and Christian Physicians in Late Renaissance Italy
(/isis/citation/CBB001567286/)
Book
Hannah Marcus;
(2020)
Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy
(/isis/citation/CBB635940733/)
Chapter
Alexander Kästner;
(2020)
Reading Moral Conduct and Physical Characteristics: the Classification of Suicide in Early Modern Europe
(/isis/citation/CBB055126233/)
Article
Chaplin, Joyce E.;
(2012)
Earthsickness: Circumnavigation and the Terrestrial Human Body, 1520--1800
(/isis/citation/CBB001251582/)
Thesis
Heidi Hausse;
(2016)
Life and Limb: Technology, Surgery, and Bodily Loss in Early Modern Germany, 1500-1700
(/isis/citation/CBB244378239/)
Article
Terpstra, Nicholas;
(2015)
Body Politics: The Criminal Body between Public and Private
(/isis/citation/CBB001422556/)
Article
Stolberg, Michael;
(2007)
Active Euthanasia in Pre-Modern Society, 1500--1800: Learned Debates and Popular Practices
(/isis/citation/CBB000772499/)
Article
Niccoli, Ottavia;
(2012)
Capi e corpi mostruosi. Una immagine della crisi del potere agli inizi dell'età moderna
(/isis/citation/CBB001420818/)
Article
McClive, Cathy;
(2009)
Masculinity on Trial: Penises, Hermaphrodites and the Uncertain Male Body in Early Modern France
(/isis/citation/CBB001032341/)
Book
Cregan, Kate;
(2009)
The Theatre of the Body: Staging Death and Embodying Life in Early-Modern London
(/isis/citation/CBB001020082/)
Book
Magnanini, Suzanne;
(2008)
Fairy-Tale Science: Monstrous Generation in the Tales of Straparola and Basile
(/isis/citation/CBB001230840/)
Article
Helm, Jürgen;
(2001)
Protestant and Catholic Medicine in the Sixteenth Century? The Case of Ingolstadt Anatomy
(/isis/citation/CBB000101391/)
Be the first to comment!