Fluid bodies and bodily fluids in premodern Europe bodies, blood, and tears in literature, theology, and art / edited by Anne M. Scott and Michael David Barbezat.
| Other author | Scott, Anne M. |
| Other author | Barbezat, Michael D. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, [2019] |
| Description | viii, 203 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Borderlines Borderlines (Leeds, England) |
| 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 -- Performance 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. |
| Summary | 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, examines how the intimately familiar language of the body served as a convenient medium through which to imagine and describe transformations of the larger world, both for the better and also for the worse. Its individual contributors demonstrate the myriad ways in which rethinking the human body was one way to approach rethinking the social, political, and religious realities of the world from the Middle Ages until the early modern period. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781641892384 hardback |
| ISBN | 1641892382 hardback |
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