Title Fluid Bodies and Bodily Fluids in Premodern Europe : Bodies, Blood, and Tears in Literature, Theology, and Art / Anne M. Scott, Michael David Barbezat

Published Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (214 p.) Series Borderlines Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION: BODIES, FLUIDITY, AND CHANGE / Barbezat, Michael David / Scott, Anne M. -- PART 1: TRANSFORMATIVE AND MANIPULATIVE TEARS -- Chapter 2. WHERE DID MARGERY KEMPE CRY? / Bale, Anthony -- Chapter 3. ELUSIVE TEARS: LAMENTATION AND IMPASSIVITY IN FIFTEENTH- CENTURY PASSION ICONOGRAPHY / Hudson, Hugh -- Chapter 4. CATHERINE'S TEARS: DIPLOMATIC CORPOREALITY, AFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE, AND GENDER AT THE SIXTEENTH- CENTURY FRENCH COURT / Broomhall, Susan -- PART 2: IDENTITIES IN BLOOD -- Chapter 5. PIERS PLOWMAN AND THE BLOOD OF BROTHERHOOD / Scott, Anne M. -- Chapter 6. PERFORMATIVE ASCETICISM AND EXEMPLARY EFFLUVIA: BLOOD, TEARS, AND RAPTURE IN FOURTEENTH- CENTURY GERMAN DOMINICAN LITERATURE / Baudinette, Samuel -- Chapter 7. "BLOODY BUSINESS": PASSIONS AND REGULATION OF SANGUINITY IN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S MACBETH AND KING LEAR / Sellberg, Karin -- PART 3: BODIES AND BLOOD IN LIFE, DEATH, AND RESURRECTION -- Chapter 8. SAINTLY BLOOD: ABSENCE, PRESENCE, AND THE ALTER CHRISTUS / Hiller, Diana -- Chapter 9. THE TREATMENT OF THE BODY IN ANATOMY LESSON OF DR. NICOLAES TULP / Gramotnev, Helen -- Chapter 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 / Barbezat, Michael David -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX Summary 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 Notes In English Subject Human body -- Religious aspects. Human body -- Symbolic aspects -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 Human body in literature. Human figure in art. Human beings in art. HISTORY / Renaissance. Human body -- Religious aspects Human body -- Symbolic aspects Human body in literature Human figure in art Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Barbezat, Michael David, editor. Scott, Anne M., editor. ISBN 9781641892391 1641892390

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