Notes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I Circulation
5. Chapter 1. Was the Heart “Dethroned”? Harvey’s Discoveries and the Politics of Blood, Heart, and Circulation 15
6. Chapter 2. “The Lake of my Heart” Blood, Containment, and the Boundaries of the Person in the Writing of Dante and Catherine of Siena 31
7. Chapter 3. Sorting Pistol’s Blood Social Class and the Circulation of Character in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry IV and Henry V 43
8. Part II Wounds
9. Chapter 4. Mantled in Blood Shakespeare’s Bloodstains and Early Modern Textile Culture 61
10. Chapter 5. Rethinking Nosebleeds Gendering Spontaneous Bleedings in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine 79
11. Chapter 6. Screaming Bleeding Trees Textual Wounding and the Epic Tradition 92
12. Part III Corruption
13. Chapter 7. Corruption, Generation, and the Problem of Menstrua in Early Modern Alchemy 111
14. Chapter 8. Bloody Students Youth, Corruption, and Discipline in the Medieval Classroom 123
15. Chapter 9. Blood, Milk, Poison Romeo and Juliet’s Tragedy of “Green” Desire and Corrupted Blood 134
16. Part IV Proof
17. Chapter 10. “In Every Wound There is a Bloody Tongue”. Cruentation in Early Modern Literature and Psychology 151
18. Chapter 11. “In such abundance . . . that it fill a Bason”. Early Modern Bleeding Bowls 167
19. Chapter 12. Macbeth and the Croxton Play of the Sacrament: Blood and Belief in Early English Stagecraft 183
20. Chapter 13. Simular Proof, Tragicomic Turns, and Cymbeline’s Bloody Cloth 198
21. Part V Signs and Substance
22. Chapter 14. Blood of the Grape 211
23. Chapter 15. Blood on the Butcher’s Knife: Images of Pig Slaughter in Late Medieval Illustrated Calendars 224
24. Chapter 16. Queer Blood 238
25. Notes 249
26. Bibliography 309
27. List of Contributors 339
28. Index 343
29. Acknowledgments 353