Blood Matters : : Studies in European Literature and Thought, 14-17 /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 10 illus.
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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

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