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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Bonnie Lander Johnson and Eleanor Decamp Klappentext Bonnie Lander Johnson is Fellow, Lecturer, and Director of Studies at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge and author of Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and Culture. Eleanor Decamp is author of Civic and Medical Worlds: Performing Barbery and Surgery. Zusammenfassung Blood Matters explores blood as a distinct category of inquiry in medieval and early modern Europe and draws together scholars who might not otherwise be in conversation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction —Bonnie Lander Johnson and Eleanor Decamp I. CIRCULATION Chapter 1. Was the Heart "Dethroned"?: Harvey's Discoveries and the Politics of Blood, Heart, and Circulation —Margaret Healy Chapter 2. "The Lake of my Heart": Blood, Containment, and the Boundaries of the Person in the Writing of Dante and Catherine of Siena —Heather Webb Chapter 3. Sorting Pistol's Blood: Social Class and the Circulation of Character in Shakespeare's 2 Henry IV and Henry V —Katharine Craik II. WOUNDS Chapter 4. Mantled in Blood: Shakespeare's Bloodstains and Early Modern Textile Culture —Hester Lees-Jeffries Chapter 5. Rethinking Nosebleeds: Gendering Spontaneous Bleedings in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine —Gabriella Zuccolin and Helen King Chapter 6. Screaming Bleeding Trees: Textual Wounding and the Epic Tradition —Joe Moshenska III. CORRUPTION Chapter 7. Corruption, Generation, and the Problem of Menstrua in Early Modern Alchemy —Tara Nummedal Chapter 8. Bloody Students: Youth, Corruption, and Discipline in the Medieval Classroom —Ben Parsons Chapter 9. Blood, Milk, Poison: Romeo and Juliet 's Tragedy of "Green" Desire and Corrupted Blood —Bonnie Lander Johnson IV. PROOF Chapter 10. "In Every Wound there is a Bloody Tongue": Cruentation in Early Modern Literature and Psychology —Lesel Dawson Chapter 11. "In such abundance … that it fill a Bason": Early Modern Bleeding Bowls —Eleanor Decamp Chapter 12. Macbeth and the Croxton Play of the Sacrament : Blood and Belief in Early English Stagecraft —Elisabeth Dutton Chapter 13. Simular Proof, Tragicomic Turns, and Cymbeline 's Bloody Cloth —Patricia Parker V. SIGNS AND SUBSTANCE Chapter 14. Blood of the Grape —Frances E. Dolan Chapter 15. Blood on the Butcher's Knife: Images of Pig Slaughter in Late Medieval Illustrated Calendars —Dolly Jørgensen Chapter 16. Queer Blood —Helen Barr Notes Bibliography Index List of Contributors Acknowledgments ...
