The Hurt(ful) Body

Introduction - Tomas Macsotay, Cornelis van der Haven and Karel Vanhaesebrouck

Part I: Performing bodies

1. Spectacle and martyrdom: bloody suffering, performed suffering and recited suffering in French tragedy (late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries) - Christian Biet

2. The Massacre of the Innocents: infanticide and solace in the seventeenth-century Low Countries - Stijn Bussels and Bram Van Oostveldt

3. To travel to suffer: towards a reverse anthropology of the early modern colonial body - Karel Vanhaesebrouck