Fluid Bodies and Bodily Fluids in Premodern Europe : Bodies, Blood, and Tears in Literature, Theology, and Art.
Scott, Anne M.
Fluid Bodies and Bodily Fluids in Premodern Europe : Bodies, Blood, and Tears in Literature, Theology, and Art. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (214 pages) - Borderlines Series . - Borderlines Series .
Cover -- Title page -- Half-title -- Series Information -- Title page -- Dedication -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Bodies, Fluidity, and Change -- Transformative and Manipulative Tears -- Identities in Blood -- Bodies and Blood in Life, Death, and Resurrection -- Author Biographies -- Bibliography -- Part 1. Transformative and Manipulative Tears -- Chapter 2. Where Did Margery Kempe Cry? -- "what Aylith Thee, Woman?" -- For Crying Out Loud -- "Why Weepest Thou?" -- Conclusion -- Abstract -- Author Biography -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3. Elusive Tears: Lamentation and Impassivity in Fifteenth-century Passion Iconography -- A Case of Male Impassivity in an Image of Lamentation -- The Lamentation's Authorship and the Origins of Its Composition -- Lamentation, Impassivity, and Gender in A Range of Passion Images -- Historical Sources For Understanding Images of Lamentation and Impassivity -- Conclusion -- Abstract -- Author Biography -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4. Catherine's Tears: Diplomatic Corporeality, Affective Performance, and Gender at the Sixteenth-century French Court -- Tears As Political Performance -- Validating Male Political Agency -- Lacrimal Persuasion -- Conclusion -- Abstract -- Author Biography -- Bibliography -- Part 2. Identities in Blood -- Chapter 5. Piers Plowman and the Blood of Brotherhood -- Corpus Christi-the Body and Blood of Christ -- Corporeality and Piers Plowman -- Blood in Its Contemporary Context -- Blody Bretherne -- The Church and the Blood of Christ -- Conclusion -- Abstract -- Author Biography -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6. Performative Asceticism and Exemplary Effluvia: Blood, Tears, and Rapture in Fourteenth-century German Dominican Lite -- Models For Corporeal Punishment in Dominican Literature. Somatic Piety in the Dominican Schwesternbücher and Offenbarungen -- Henry Suso's Exemplar: Flagellation and Blood As A Hermeneutic of Embodiment -- Conclusion -- Abstract -- Author Biography -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7. "bloody Business": Passions and Regulation of Sanguinity in William Shakespeare's Macbeth and King Lear -- Passions and Emotional Practices -- The Physics of Blood and Circulation -- Regulation of Blood and Passions -- The Generation of A Bloodline -- Abstract -- Author Biography -- Bibliography -- Part 3. Bodies and Blood in Life, Death, and Resurrection -- Chapter 8. Saintly Blood: Absence, Presence, and the Alter Christus -- Absence of Blood in Paintings of Saintly Martyrs -- Saint Sebastian -- Saint Francis -- Saint Peter Martyr -- Conclusion -- Abstract -- Author Biography -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9. the Treatment of the Body in Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp -- Genre Painting: Group Portraiture and the Anatomy Lesson -- Genre Painting: the Slaughtered Animal -- The Body on the Table -- Kindt and the Dead Christ -- The Spectacle of Human Dissection -- Conclusion -- Abstract -- Author Biography -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10. Augustine on the Flesh of the Resurrection Body in the De Fide Et Symbolo: Origen, Manichaeism, and Augustine's Deve -- The Text: Themes, Contents, and Structure -- Spiritual Bodies and Corporeal "spirits" -- An Ethereal Body Without Flesh and Blood -- The Ethereal Body Rejected: Bodily Continuity in the Retractions -- Conclusion -- Abstract -- Author Biography -- Bibliography -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
This collection of essays explores the ways that medieval and pre-modern literature, theology, and art utilised representations of the human body and its fluids both to signify and to explain change.
9781641892391
Human body-Symbolic aspects.
Human figure in art-History-To 1500.
Human body in literature-History-To 1500.
Electronic books.
GT495 .F585 2019
306.4
Fluid Bodies and Bodily Fluids in Premodern Europe : Bodies, Blood, and Tears in Literature, Theology, and Art. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (214 pages) - Borderlines Series . - Borderlines Series .
Cover -- Title page -- Half-title -- Series Information -- Title page -- Dedication -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Bodies, Fluidity, and Change -- Transformative and Manipulative Tears -- Identities in Blood -- Bodies and Blood in Life, Death, and Resurrection -- Author Biographies -- Bibliography -- Part 1. Transformative and Manipulative Tears -- Chapter 2. Where Did Margery Kempe Cry? -- "what Aylith Thee, Woman?" -- For Crying Out Loud -- "Why Weepest Thou?" -- Conclusion -- Abstract -- Author Biography -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3. Elusive Tears: Lamentation and Impassivity in Fifteenth-century Passion Iconography -- A Case of Male Impassivity in an Image of Lamentation -- The Lamentation's Authorship and the Origins of Its Composition -- Lamentation, Impassivity, and Gender in A Range of Passion Images -- Historical Sources For Understanding Images of Lamentation and Impassivity -- Conclusion -- Abstract -- Author Biography -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4. Catherine's Tears: Diplomatic Corporeality, Affective Performance, and Gender at the Sixteenth-century French Court -- Tears As Political Performance -- Validating Male Political Agency -- Lacrimal Persuasion -- Conclusion -- Abstract -- Author Biography -- Bibliography -- Part 2. Identities in Blood -- Chapter 5. Piers Plowman and the Blood of Brotherhood -- Corpus Christi-the Body and Blood of Christ -- Corporeality and Piers Plowman -- Blood in Its Contemporary Context -- Blody Bretherne -- The Church and the Blood of Christ -- Conclusion -- Abstract -- Author Biography -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6. Performative Asceticism and Exemplary Effluvia: Blood, Tears, and Rapture in Fourteenth-century German Dominican Lite -- Models For Corporeal Punishment in Dominican Literature. Somatic Piety in the Dominican Schwesternbücher and Offenbarungen -- Henry Suso's Exemplar: Flagellation and Blood As A Hermeneutic of Embodiment -- Conclusion -- Abstract -- Author Biography -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7. "bloody Business": Passions and Regulation of Sanguinity in William Shakespeare's Macbeth and King Lear -- Passions and Emotional Practices -- The Physics of Blood and Circulation -- Regulation of Blood and Passions -- The Generation of A Bloodline -- Abstract -- Author Biography -- Bibliography -- Part 3. Bodies and Blood in Life, Death, and Resurrection -- Chapter 8. Saintly Blood: Absence, Presence, and the Alter Christus -- Absence of Blood in Paintings of Saintly Martyrs -- Saint Sebastian -- Saint Francis -- Saint Peter Martyr -- Conclusion -- Abstract -- Author Biography -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9. the Treatment of the Body in Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp -- Genre Painting: Group Portraiture and the Anatomy Lesson -- Genre Painting: the Slaughtered Animal -- The Body on the Table -- Kindt and the Dead Christ -- The Spectacle of Human Dissection -- Conclusion -- Abstract -- Author Biography -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10. Augustine on the Flesh of the Resurrection Body in the De Fide Et Symbolo: Origen, Manichaeism, and Augustine's Deve -- The Text: Themes, Contents, and Structure -- Spiritual Bodies and Corporeal "spirits" -- An Ethereal Body Without Flesh and Blood -- The Ethereal Body Rejected: Bodily Continuity in the Retractions -- Conclusion -- Abstract -- Author Biography -- Bibliography -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
This collection of essays explores the ways that medieval and pre-modern literature, theology, and art utilised representations of the human body and its fluids both to signify and to explain change.
9781641892391
Human body-Symbolic aspects.
Human figure in art-History-To 1500.
Human body in literature-History-To 1500.
Electronic books.
GT495 .F585 2019
306.4