Blood Matters: Studies in European Literature and Thought, 1400-1700

Synopsis

Introduction / Bonnie Lander Johnson And Eleanor Decamp -- I. Circulation. 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 A. Craik -- Ii. Wounds. 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 -- Iii. Corruption. 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 -- Iv. Proof. 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 -- V. Signs And Substance. Blood Of The Grape / Frances E. Dolan -- Blood On The Butcher's Knife : Images Of Pig Slaughter In Late Medieval Illustrated Calendars / Dolly J©ırgensen -- Queer Blood / Helen Barr. Edited By Bonnie Lander Johnson And Eleanor Decamp. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 249-337) And Index.