Fluid bodies and bodily fluids in premodern Europe : bodies, blood, and tears in literature, theology, and art /
For medieval and early modern thinkers, the apparent solidity of the body only came about through the dynamic interplay of a host of fluidities in constant flux. This interdisciplinary collection of essays, containing chapters from specialists in history, art history, medical history, and literature...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Leeds :
Arc Humanities Press
[2019]
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| Series: | Borderlines (Leeds, England)
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvp2n51g |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : bodies, fluidity, and change / Michael David Barbezat and Anne M. Scott
- Where did Margery Kempe cry? / Anthony Bale
- Elusive tears : lamentation and impassivity in fifteenth- century passion iconography / Hugh Hudson
- Catherine's tears : diplomatic corporeality, affective performance, and gender at the sixteenth-century French court / Susan Broomhall
- Piers Plowman and the blood of brotherhood / Anne M. Scott
- Performative asceticism and exemplary effluvia : blood, tears, and rapture in fourteenth-century German Dominican literature / Samuel Baudinette
- "Bloody business:" passions and regulation of sanguinity in William Shakespeare's Macbeth and King Lear / Karin Sellberg
- Saintly blood : absence, presence, and the alter Christus / Diana Hiller
- The treatment of the body in anatomy lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp / Helen Gramotnev
- Augustine on the flesh of the resurrection body in the De fide et symbolo : origen, Manichaeism, and Augustine's developing thought regarding human physical perfection / Michael David Barbezat