{"product_id":"blood-matters-studies-in-european-literature-and-thought-14-17-hardback-9780812250213","title":"Blood Matters; Studies in European Literature and Thought, 14-17 (Hardback) 9780812250213","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBlood Matters\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eStudies in European Literature and Thought, 14-17\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBonnie Lander Johnson (Edited by), Eleanor Decamp (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812250213\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 May 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages, 1 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The ambitious edited collection \u003ci\u003eBlood Matters\u003c\/i\u003e takes on a complicated task:mapping the conceptual terrain of blood (both as material and metaphor) in late medieval and early modern Europe . . . Reading the essays together offers an illuminating glimpse into the densely interlocking regimes of blood in medieval and early modern European culture.\" (\u003ci\u003eModern Philology\u003c\/i\u003e) \"A powerful and coherent collection of essays that illuminates the various facets of a fascinating subject. It greatly enriches our sense of the meanings of blood and will have a major impact in medieval and Renaissance studies.\" (Michael Schoenfeldt, University of Michigan)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn late medieval and early modern Europe, definitions of blood in medical writing were slippery and changeable: blood was at once the red fluid in human veins, a humor, a substance governing crucial Galenic models of bodily change, a waste product, a cause of corruption, a source of life, a medical cure, a serum appearing under the guise of all other bodily secretions, and-after William Harvey's discovery of its circulation-the cause of one of the greatest medical controversies of the premodern period. Figurative uses of \"blood\" are even more difficult to pin down. The term appeared in almost every sphere of life and thought, running through political, theological, and familial discourses.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBlood Matters\u003c\/i\u003e explores blood as a distinct category of inquiry and draws together scholars who might not otherwise be in conversation. Theatrical and medical practice are found to converge in their approaches to the regulation of blood as a source of identity and truth; medieval civic life intersects with seventeenth-century science and philosophy; the concepts of class, race, gender, and sexuality find in the language of blood as many mechanisms for differentiation as for homogeneity; and fields as disparate as pedagogical theory, alchemy, phlebotomy, wet-nursing, and wine production emerge as historically and intellectually analogous. The volume's essays are organized within categories derived from medieval and early modern understanding of blood behaviors-Circulation, Wounds, Corruption, Proof, and Signs and Substances-thereby providing the terms through which interdisciplinary and cross-period conversations can take place.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e: Helen Barr, Katharine Craik, Lesel Dawson, Eleanor Decamp, Frances E. Dolan, Elisabeth Dutton, Margaret Healy, Dolly JØrgensen, Helen King, Bonnie Lander Johnson, Hester Lees-Jeffries, Joe Moshenska, Tara Nummedal, Patricia Parker, Ben Parsons, Heather Webb, Gabriella Zuccolin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e -Bonnie Lander Johnson and Eleanor Decamp\u003cbr\u003e I. CIRCULATION\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Was the Heart \"Dethroned\"?: Harvey's Discoveries and the Politics of Blood, Heart, and Circulation\u003cbr\u003e -Margaret Healy\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. \"The Lake of my Heart\": Blood, Containment, and the Boundaries of the Person in the Writing of Dante and Catherine of Siena\u003cbr\u003e -Heather Webb\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Sorting Pistol's Blood: Social Class and the Circulation of Character in Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003e2 Henry IV\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHenry V\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e -Katharine Craik\u003cbr\u003e II. WOUNDS\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Mantled in Blood: Shakespeare's Bloodstains and Early Modern Textile Culture\u003cbr\u003e -Hester Lees-Jeffries\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Rethinking Nosebleeds: Gendering Spontaneous Bleedings in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine\u003cbr\u003e -Gabriella Zuccolin and Helen King\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Screaming Bleeding Trees: Textual Wounding and the Epic Tradition\u003cbr\u003e -Joe Moshenska\u003cbr\u003e III. CORRUPTION\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Corruption, Generation, and the Problem of \u003ci\u003eMenstrua\u003c\/i\u003e in Early Modern Alchemy\u003cbr\u003e -Tara Nummedal\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Bloody Students: Youth, Corruption, and Discipline in the Medieval Classroom\u003cbr\u003e -Ben Parsons\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Blood, Milk, Poison: \u003ci\u003eRomeo and Juliet\u003c\/i\u003e's Tragedy of \"Green\" Desire and Corrupted Blood\u003cbr\u003e -Bonnie Lander Johnson\u003cbr\u003e IV. PROOF\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. \"In Every Wound there is a Bloody Tongue\": Cruentation in Early Modern Literature and Psychology\u003cbr\u003e -Lesel Dawson\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. \"In such abundance … that it fill a Bason\": Early Modern Bleeding Bowls\u003cbr\u003e -Eleanor Decamp\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. \u003ci\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/i\u003e and the Croxton \u003ci\u003ePlay of the Sacrament\u003c\/i\u003e: Blood and Belief in Early English Stagecraft\u003cbr\u003e -Elisabeth Dutton\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13. Simular Proof, Tragicomic Turns, and \u003ci\u003eCymbeline\u003c\/i\u003e's Bloody Cloth\u003cbr\u003e -Patricia Parker\u003cbr\u003e V. SIGNS AND SUBSTANCE\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14. Blood of the Grape\u003cbr\u003e -Frances E. Dolan\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15. Blood on the Butcher's Knife: Images of Pig Slaughter in Late Medieval Illustrated Calendars\u003cbr\u003e -Dolly JØrgensen\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 16. Queer Blood\u003cbr\u003e -Helen Barr\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739278438680,"sku":"9780812250213","price":58.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/blood-matters-studies-in-european-literature-and-thought-14-17-hardback-9780812250213","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}