Contents
Introduction
Part I Circulation
Chapter 1. Was the Heart “Dethroned”? Harvey’s Discoveries and the Politics of Blood, Heart, and Circulation
Chapter 2. “The Lake of my Heart” Blood, Containment, and the Boundaries of the Person in the Writing of Dante and Catherine of Siena
Chapter 3. Sorting Pistol’s Blood Social Class and the Circulation of Character in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry IV and Henry V
Part II Wounds
Chapter 4. Mantled in Blood Shakespeare’s Bloodstains and Early Modern Textile Culture
Chapter 5. Rethinking Nosebleeds Gendering Spontaneous Bleedings in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine
Chapter 6. Screaming Bleeding Trees Textual Wounding and the Epic Tradition
Part III Corruption
Chapter 7. Corruption, Generation, and the Problem of Menstrua in Early Modern Alchemy
Chapter 8. Bloody Students Youth, Corruption, and Discipline in the Medieval Classroom
Chapter 9. Blood, Milk, Poison Romeo and Juliet’s Tragedy of “Green” Desire and Corrupted Blood
Part IV Proof
Chapter 10. “In Every Wound There is a Bloody Tongue”. Cruentation in Early Modern Literature and Psychology
Chapter 11. “In such abundance . . . that it fill a Bason”. Early Modern Bleeding Bowls
Chapter 12. Macbeth and the Croxton Play of the Sacrament: Blood and Belief in Early English Stagecraft
Chapter 13. Simular Proof, Tragicomic Turns, and Cymbeline’s Bloody Cloth
Part V Signs and Substance
Chapter 14. Blood of the Grape
Chapter 15. Blood on the Butcher’s Knife: Images of Pig Slaughter in Late Medieval Illustrated Calendars
Chapter 16. Queer Blood
Notes
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
