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" Confessional Fragments: "
Shiflett, Stephanie Elizabeth
Kleiman, Irit R.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1113798
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TLpq2388749099
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Kleiman, Irit R.
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Shiflett, Stephanie Elizabeth
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Confessional Fragments:\ Shiflett, Stephanie ElizabethKleiman, Irit R.
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Boston University
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2020
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2020
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Ph.D.
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260
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| Abstract
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How does the body manifest religious belief? What happens when that belief shatters? These questions were critical in sixteenth-century France when religious conflict rattled many individuals’ faith. A startling—and related—motif in the literature of the period features one part of the body overwhelming the world. These texts, this dissertation argues, manifest religious belief through this motif. While several scholars have examined the role of fragmentation in Renaissance culture, particularly how this fragmentation intersects with cartography and anatomy, the religious dimension of this phenomenon has not been emphasized enough. Through a method of close textual and visual analysis, this study argues that in an era when openly stating one’s personal religious beliefs could have fatal consequences, the digestive tract, heart, and other parts of the body sometimes took on the work of expressing religious belief. This process resembles synecdoche but differs in that, instead of the part representing the whole, the part swallows it. The word “swallows” is indeed appropriate: the mouth appears in several of these texts as the part that consumes, contains, or incorporates the entirety.
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Abraham Ortelius
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François Rabelais
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Guillaume du Bartas
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Jean de Léry
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Renaissance
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Wars of religion
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