Fluid Bodies and Bodily Fluids in Premodern Europe Bodies, Blood, and Tears in Literature, Theology, and Art
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- 1 Introduction: Bodies, Fluidity, and Change
- PART 1 TRANSFORMATIVE AND MANIPULATIVE TEARS
- 2 Where Did Margery Kempe Cry?
- 3 Elusive Tears: Lamentation and Impassivity in Fifteenth-century Passion Iconography
- 4 Catherine’s Tears: Diplomatic Corporeality, Affective Performance, and Gender at the Sixteenth-century French Court
- PART 2 IDENTITIES IN BLOOD
- 5 Piers Plowman and the Blood of Brotherhood
- 6 Performative Asceticism and Exemplary Effluvia: Blood, Tears, and Rapture in Fourteenth-century German Dominican Literature
- 7 “Bloody Business:” Passions and Regulation of Sanguinity in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and King Lear
- PART 3 BODIES AND BLOOD IN LIFE, DEATH, AND RESURRECTION
- 8 Saintly Blood: Absence, Presence, and the Alter Christus
- 9 The Treatment of the Body in Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
- 10 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
- Select Bibliography
- Index
PART 3 - BODIES AND BLOOD IN LIFE, DEATH, AND RESURRECTION
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2020
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- 1 Introduction: Bodies, Fluidity, and Change
- PART 1 TRANSFORMATIVE AND MANIPULATIVE TEARS
- 2 Where Did Margery Kempe Cry?
- 3 Elusive Tears: Lamentation and Impassivity in Fifteenth-century Passion Iconography
- 4 Catherine’s Tears: Diplomatic Corporeality, Affective Performance, and Gender at the Sixteenth-century French Court
- PART 2 IDENTITIES IN BLOOD
- 5 Piers Plowman and the Blood of Brotherhood
- 6 Performative Asceticism and Exemplary Effluvia: Blood, Tears, and Rapture in Fourteenth-century German Dominican Literature
- 7 “Bloody Business:” Passions and Regulation of Sanguinity in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and King Lear
- PART 3 BODIES AND BLOOD IN LIFE, DEATH, AND RESURRECTION
- 8 Saintly Blood: Absence, Presence, and the Alter Christus
- 9 The Treatment of the Body in Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
- 10 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
- Select Bibliography
- Index
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- Fluid Bodies and Bodily Fluids in Premodern EuropeBodies, Blood, and Tears in Literature, Theology, and Art, pp. 131 - 132Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2019