Fluid Bodies and Bodily Fluids in Premodern Europe: Bodies, Blood, and Tears in Literature, Theology, and Art

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. Edited By Anne M. Scott And Michael David Barbezat. Issued As Part Of Book Collections On Project Muse. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.