The Impossible Striptease: Nudity in Jean Calvin and Michel de Montaigne

By Nora Martin Peterson

This essay examines the writings of Jean Calvin and Michel de Montaigne, two figures not commonly considered together. The article seeks to highlight a certain fascination with nudity, not only in these texts, but in sixteenth-century culture as a…

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