Words Made Flesh Jeffrey Nels Younggren Gemistos Plethon

Gemistos Plethon

Leadership is an ill-defined domain

and to have a deep firsthand knowledge of a place

These figures unify disparate phenomena into governable categories and index historical relations of power that define Turkish politics

offering an important look at female political engagement as it crossed the 1920 suffrage divide

Words Made Flesh Jeffrey Nels Younggren Gemistos PlethonExamines the role of the body in Indigenous language religious texts from colonial Latin America Words Made Flesh examines the role played by corporeality in a series of missionary linguistic and poetic projects from Brazil, Peru, and Mexico in early colonial Latin America. Caroline Egan analyzes how works produced in Indigenous languages for the purpose of evangelization were shaped by and, in turn, transformed native understandings of embodiment.