Blood matters : studies in European literature and thought, 1400-1700 / edited by Bonnie Lander Johnson and Eleanor Decamp.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]

ix, 354 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Introduction / Bonnie Lander Johnson and Eleanor Decamp -- I. Circulation. Was the heart "dethroned"? : Harvey's discoveries and the politics of blood, heart, and circulation / Margaret Healy -- "The lake of my heart" : blood, containment, and the boundaries of the person in the writing of Dante and Catherine of Siena / Heather Webb -- Sorting Pistol's blood : social class and the circulation of character in Shakespeare's 2 Henry IV and Henry V / Katharine A. Craik -- II. Wounds. Mantled in blood : Shakespeare's bloodstains and early modern textile culture / Hester Lees-Jeffries -- Rethinking nosebleeds : gendering spontaneous bleedings in medieval and early modern medicine / Gabriella Zuccolin and Helen King -- Screaming bleeding trees : textual wounding and the epic tradition / Joe Moshenska -- III. Corruption. Corruption, generation, and the problem of Menstrua in early modern alchemy / Tara Nummedal -- Bloody students : youth, corruption, and discipline in the medieval classroom / Ben Parsons -- Blood, milk, poison : Romeo and Juliet's tragedy of "green" desire and corrupted blood / Bonnie Lander Johnson -- IV. Proof. "In every wound there is a bloody tongue" : cruentation in early modern literature and psychology / Lesel Dawson -- "In such abundance...that it fill a bason" : early modern bleeding bowls / Eleanor Decamp -- Macbeth and the Croxton Play of the sacrament : blood and belief in early English stagecraft / Elisabeth Dutton -- Simular proof, tragicomic turns, and Cymbeline's bloody cloth / Patricia Parker -- V. Signs and substance. Blood of the grape / Frances E. Dolan -- Blood on the butcher's knife : images of pig slaughter in late medieval illustrated calendars / Dolly Jørgensen -- Queer blood / Helen Barr.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-337) and index.