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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    February 2025
    February 2025
    ISBN:
    9781108894746
    9781108841719
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108894746
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.67kg, 372 Pages
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    • Subjects:
    British History after 1450, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
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    Subjects:
    British History after 1450, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
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    Religious worship is an embodied act, consisting not of words alone, but of words and gestures. But what did early modern English Protestants think they were doing when they went through the motions of worship? In Protestant Bodies, Arnold Hunt argues that the English Reformation was a gestural reformation that redefined the postures and motions of the body. Drawing on a rich array of primary sources, he shows how gestures inherited from the medieval liturgy took on new meanings within a drastically altered ritual landscape, and became central to the enforcement of religious uniformity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Protestant Bodies presents a challenging new interpretation of the English Reformation as a series of experiments in shaping and remaking the body, both individual and collective, with consequences that still persist today.

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