Fluid bodies and bodily fluids in premodern Europe bodies, blood, and tears in literature, theology, and art
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 worl...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leeds :
Arc Humanities Press
2019.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b43754478*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : bodies, fluidity, and change / Michael David Barbezat and Anne M. Scott
- part 1. Transformative and manipulative tears
- 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
- part 2. Identities in blood
- 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
- part 3. Bodies and blood in life, death, and resurrection
- 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.
