The Impossible Striptease: Nudity in Jean Calvin and Michel de Montaigne
Article | Contributeur(s): 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 whole. Though it is a bodily phenomenon, I argue,...