Blood Matters : : Studies in European Literature and Thought, 14-17 / / ed. by Eleanor Decamp, Bonnie Lander Johnson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English
• MitwirkendeR: Barr, Helen,; Craik, Katharine A.,; Dawson, Lesel,; Decamp, Eleanor,; Dolan, Frances E.,; Dutton, Elisabeth,; Healy, Margaret,; Jørgensen, Dolly,; King, Helen,; Lander Johnson, Bonnie,; Lees-Jeffries, Hester,; Moshenska, Joe,; Nummedal, Tara,; Parker, Patricia,; Parsons, Ben,; Webb, Heather,; Zuccolin, Gabriella,
• HerausgeberIn: Decamp, Eleanor,; Johnson, Bonnie Lander,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 10 illus.

In late medieval and early modern Europe, definitions of blood in medical writing were slippery and changeable: blood was at once the red fluid in human veins, a humor, a substance governing crucial Galenic models of bodily change, a waste product, a cause of corruption, a source of life, a medical cure, a serum appearing under the guise of all other bodily secretions, and—after William Harvey's discovery of its circulation—the cause of one of the greatest medical controversies of the premodern period. Figurative uses of "blood" are even more difficult to pin down. The term appeared in almost every sphere of life and thought, running through political, theological, and familial discourses.Blood Matters explores blood as a distinct category of inquiry and draws together scholars who might not otherwise be in conversation. Theatrical and medical practice are found to converge in their approaches to the regulation of blood as a source of identity and truth; medieval civic life intersects with seventeenth-century science and philosophy; the concepts of class, race, gender, and sexuality find in the language of blood as many mechanisms for differentiation as for homogeneity; and fields as disparate as pedagogical theory, alchemy, phlebotomy, wet-nursing, and wine production emerge as historically and intellectually analogous. The volume's essays are organized within categories derived from medieval and early modern understanding of blood behaviors—Circulation, Wounds, Corruption, Proof, and Signs and Substances—thereby providing the terms through which interdisciplinary and cross-period conversations can take place.Contributors: Helen Barr, Katharine Craik, Lesel Dawson, Eleanor Decamp, Frances E. Dolan, Elisabeth Dutton, Margaret Healy, Dolly Jørgensen, Helen King, Bonnie Lander Johnson, Hester Lees-Jeffries, Joe Moshenska, Tara Nummedal, Patricia Parker, Ben Parsons, Heather Webb, Gabriella Zuccolin.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I Circulation -- Chapter 1. Was the Heart “Dethroned”? Harvey’s Discoveries and the Politics of Blood, Heart, and Circulation -- Chapter 2. “The Lake of my Heart” Blood, Containment, and the Boundaries of the Person in the Writing of Dante and Catherine of Siena -- Chapter 3. Sorting Pistol’s Blood Social Class and the Circulation of Character in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry IV and Henry V -- Part II Wounds -- Chapter 4. Mantled in Blood Shakespeare’s Bloodstains and Early Modern Textile Culture -- Chapter 5. Rethinking Nosebleeds Gendering Spontaneous Bleedings in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine -- Chapter 6. Screaming Bleeding Trees Textual Wounding and the Epic Tradition -- Part III Corruption -- Chapter 7. Corruption, Generation, and the Problem of Menstrua in Early Modern Alchemy -- Chapter 8. Bloody Students Youth, Corruption, and Discipline in the Medieval Classroom -- Chapter 9. Blood, Milk, Poison Romeo and Juliet’s Tragedy of “Green” Desire and Corrupted Blood -- Part IV Proof -- Chapter 10. “In Every Wound There is a Bloody Tongue”. Cruentation in Early Modern Literature and Psychology -- Chapter 11. “In such abundance . . . that it fill a Bason”. Early Modern Bleeding Bowls -- Chapter 12. Macbeth and the Croxton Play of the Sacrament: Blood and Belief in Early English Stagecraft -- Chapter 13. Simular Proof, Tragicomic Turns, and Cymbeline’s Bloody Cloth -- Part V Signs and Substance -- Chapter 14. Blood of the Grape -- Chapter 15. Blood on the Butcher’s Knife: Images of Pig Slaughter in Late Medieval Illustrated Calendars -- Chapter 16. Queer Blood -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments