Format:
1 online resource (214 pages)
ISBN:
9781641892391
Series Statement:
Borderlines Ser.
Content:
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.
Content:
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.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781641892384
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781641892384
Language:
English
