| Description |
1 online resource |
| 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 Jørgensen -- Queer blood / Helen Barr |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Blood in literature.
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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European literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Blood -- Religious aspects -- History
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Blood -- Symbolic aspects -- History
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Blood -- Social aspects -- History
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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HISTORY -- Medieval.
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Blood in literature.
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Blood -- Religious aspects.
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Blood -- Social aspects.
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Blood -- Symbolic aspects.
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Literature, Medieval.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lander, Bonnie, 1977- editor.
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Decamp, Eleanor Sian, 1984- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780812295092 |
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0812295099 |
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