Bodies That Speak: Early Modern European Gender Distinctions in Bleeding Corpses and Demoniacs

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dc.contributor.advisorLuebke, David
dc.contributor.authorIngram, Margaret
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-06T21:46:44Z
dc.date.available2017-09-06T21:46:44Z
dc.date.issued2017-09-06
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines the concept of “speaking bodies” in the early modern European world, primarily in the seventeenth century. Demoniacs and corpses that bled due to cruentation are examined comparatively through the lens of gender. Utilizing sources that include pamphlets, broadsheets, witness testimonies, and legal records, this thesis performs a close textual analysis to reveal that the gender of the speaking bodies informed contemporaries’ beliefs in the validity of a body’s speech. This thesis also argues that one form of speaking bodies – bleeding corpses – survived over another form – demoniacs – because of gender differentials. In order for a body to speak and be heard, whether through literal demonic speech or metaphorical blood, this body either had to be male, or possessed by a male spirit such as a demon.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/22689
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectCruentationen_US
dc.subjectDemoniacsen_US
dc.subjectEarly modern Europeen_US
dc.subjectGender theoryen_US
dc.subjectReligionen_US
dc.subjectMagicen_US
dc.subjectScienceen_US
dc.titleBodies That Speak: Early Modern European Gender Distinctions in Bleeding Corpses and Demoniacs
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of History
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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