Blood Matters : Studies in European Literature and Thought, 1400-1700 / Bonnie Lander Johnson, Eleanor Decamp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Decamp, Eleanor, editor.

Lander Johnson, Bonnie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blood in literature.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

European literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

European literature.

Blood--Symbolic aspects--History.

Blood.

Blood--Religious aspects--History.

Blood--Social aspects--History.

Genre:

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Blood Matters explores blood as a distinct category of inquiry in medieval and early modern Europe and draws together scholars who might not otherwise be in conversation.

Contents:

Was the heart "dethroned"? : Harvey's discoveries and the politics of blood, heart, and circulation / Margaret Healy

"The lake of my heart" : blood, containment, and the boundaries of the person in the writing of Dante and Catherine of Siena / Heather Webb

Sorting Pistol's blood : social class and the circulation of character in Shakespeare's 2 Henry IV and Henry V / Katharine Craik

Mantled in blood : Shakespeare's bloodstains and early modern textile culture / Hester Lees-Jeffries

Rethinking nosebleeds : gendering spontaneous bleedings in medieval and early modern medicine / Gabriella Zuccolin and Helen King

Screaming bleeding trees : textual wounding and the epic tradition / Joe Moshenska

Corruption, generation, and the problem of menstrua in early modern alchemy / Tara Nummedal

Bloody students : youth, corruption, and discipline in the medieval classroom / Ben Parsons

Blood, milk, poison : Romeo and Juliet's tragedy of "green" desire and corrupted blood / Bonnie Lander Johnson

"In every wound there is a bloody tongue" : cruentation in early modern literature and psychology / Lesel Dawson

"In such abundance ... that it fill a bason" : early modern bleeding bowls / Eleanor Decamp

Macbeth and the Croxton play of the sacrament : blood and belief in early English stagecraft / Elisabeth Dutton

Simular proof, tragicomic turns, and Cymbeline's bloody cloth / Patricia Parker

Blood of the grape / Frances E. Dolan

Blood on the butcher's knife : images of pig slaughter in late medieval illustrated calendars / Dolly Jorgensen

Queer blood / Helen Barr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Sep 2018)

ISBN:

9780812295092

0812295099

OCLC:

1030536881