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Fluid Bodies and Bodily Fluids in Premodern Europe : Bodies, Blood, and Tears in Literature, Theology, and Art /
For medieval and early modern thinkers, the apparent solidity of the body only came about through the dynamic interplay of a host of fluidities in constant flux. This interdisciplinary collection of essays, containing chapters from specialists in history, art history, medical history, and literature...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2019
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| Colección: | Borderlines (ARC Humanities Press)
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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.