Fluid Bodies and Bodily Fluids in Premodern Europe

Anne M. Scott is an Honorary Research Fellow in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia. She has published widely in late Middle English literature. Michael David Barbezat is an historian of religious and intellectual history. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for the History of Emotions at the University of Western Australia.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Bodies, Fluidity, and Change, Michael D. Barbezat and Anne M. ScottPART 1: Transformative and Manipulative TearsChapter 2: Where Did Marjorie Kempe Cry?, Anthony BaleChapter 3: Elusive Tears: Lamentation and Impassivity in fifteenth-Century Passion Iconography, Hugh HudsonChapter 4: Catherine’s Tears: Diplomatic Corporeality, Affective Performance and Gender at the Sixteenth-Century French Court, Susan BroomhallPART 2: Identities in BloodChapter 5: Piers Plowman and the Blood of Brotherhood, Anne M. ScottChapter 6: Performative Asceticism and Exemplary Effluvia: Blood, Tears and Rapture in Fourteenth-Century German Dominican Literature, Samuel BaudinetteChapter 7: “Bloody Business:” Passions and Regulation of Sanguinity in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and King Lear, Karin SellbergPART 3: Bodies and blood in life death and resurrectionChapter 8: Saintly Blood: Absence, Presence and the alter Christus, Diana HillerChapter 9: The treatment of the body in Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp, Helen GramotnevChapter 10: Augustine on the Flesh of the Resurrection Body in the De fide et symbolo: Origen, Manicheanism, and Augustine’s Developing Thought Regarding Human Physical Perfection, Michael D. BarbezatSelect bibliography

"The new research presented in this thoughtful collection of essays significantly furthers our understanding of bodily fluids and corporeality in the premodern world." —Katie Barclay, Senior Research Fellow, The University of Adelaide