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Introduction: "the past is written on my body": bodies and history / Justyna Jajszczok and Aleksandra Musial -- Fortunio Liceti's strategic use of Lusus naturae in de monstris (1634-1665) and the self-assured semiology of naturalized early modern science / William Leeming -- A Tlaxcalan midwife's toolkit: the body, medicine, childbirth, and contact zone in early to mid-colonial New Spain / Jacqueline Susann Holler -- Ecstasies, stigmata, and visions: body and sanctity in La civiltà cattolica in the age of positivism (1888-1890) / Carlo Bovolo -- Making the body productive/making "the body" productive / Steffan Blayney -- Corpulence, modernity, and transcendence in the early twentieth century / Christopher E. Forth -- The visual politics of the body in Germany between the two world wars / Claude Lacroix -- Representing AIDS: KS lesions, US visual culture, and the body as canvas (1983-1993) / Kylo-Patrick R. Hart -- The criminal's hair: forensic practices (1600-1945) / Willemijn Ruberg -- Citizen to convict: the consumption of the body in the age of prisoner reentry / CalvinJohn Smiley -- Aesth/ethical bodies: Bracha Ettinger's Eurydices and the encounter with the other's history / Anna Kisiel -- The king's four bodies: Kantorowicz, Schmitt, Henry, and Hal / David Schauffler. "The aim of this book is to explore the body in various historical contexts and to take it as a point of departure for broader historiographical projects. The chapters in the volume present the ways in which the body constitutes a valuable and productive object of historical analysis, especially as a lens through which to trace histories of social, political, and cultural phenomena and processes. More specifically, the authors use the body as a tool for critical re-examination of particular histories of human experience, and of societal and cultural practices, thus contributing to the burgeoning area of body history in terms of both specific case studies as well as historiography in general"--
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