Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Figures; List of contributors; Introduction; Part I Performing bodies; 1 Spectacle and martyrdom: bloody suffering, performed suffering and recited suffering in French tragedy (late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries); 2 The Massacre of the Innocents: infanticide and solace in the seventeenth-century Low Countries; 3 To travel to suffer: towards a reverse anthropology of the early modern colonial body; Part II Beholders; 4 'I feel your pain': some reflections on the (literary) perception of pain; 5 Masochism and the female gaze.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Witchcraft and Medicine: Power to Take Away and Restore Health -- Bewitching Animals, Spoiling Harvests -- Magic Practitioners and Actual Magic Practices -- Local Magic Practitioners -- Amateur Magic Practices -- Chapter 4 A Case of Witchcraft and Infanticide in Szczurowczyky -- Infanticide in Szczurowczyky: Iewka Stanorycha -- A Witchcraft practitioner: Orzyszka Liczmanicha -- Night Flights and Coven -- Verdicts -- Further Romanticization, Forgetting, and Resurrection of Ukrainian Witches: An Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index…”
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Table of Contents: “…Sensbach -- Passion, desire, and ecstasy : the experiential religion of Southern Methodist women, 1770-1810 / Cynthia Lynn Lyerly -- The sexual politics of race and gender : Mary Musgrove and the Georgia trustees / Michelle Gillespie -- "In consideration of her enormous crime" : rape and infanticide in Spanish St. Augustine / Jane Landers -- Coping in a complex world : free Black women in colonial New Orleans / Kimberly S. …”