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  • Blood Matters

    Studies in European Literature and Thought, 14-17

    Edited by Bonnie Lander Johnson, Eleanor Decamp ...
    In late medieval and early modern Europe, definitions of blood in medical writing were slippery and changeable: blood was at once the red fluid in human veins, a humor, a substance governing crucial Galenic models of bodily change, a waste product, a cause of corruption, a source of life, a medical cure, a serum appearing under the guise of all other bodily secretions, and—after William Harvey's ... Read more

    $85.49 USD

  • Blood Matters

    Studies in European Literature and Thought, 14-17

    Edited by Bonnie Lander Johnson, Eleanor Decamp ...
    In late medieval and early modern Europe, definitions of blood in medical writing were slippery and changeable: blood was at once the red fluid in human veins, a humor, a substance governing crucial Galenic models of bodily change, a waste product, a cause of corruption, a source of life, a medical cure, a serum appearing under the guise of all other bodily secretions, and—after William Harvey's ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

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    The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100–1500

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  • The Unrepentant Renaissance

    From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton

    by Richard Strier ...
    Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, rejection of the worldly and the physical? These widely articulated values were part of the inherited Christian tradition and were reinforced by key elements in the Renaissance, especially the revival of Stoicism and Platonism. This book is devoted to those who did dissent from them. ... Read more

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  • Anatomical Forms

    The Science of the Body in Early Modern Women’s Poetry

    by Whitney Sperrazza ...
    Series series Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science
    Demonstrates how early modern women writers such as Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter wielded poetics as a tool for scientific workAnatomical Forms excavates the shared material practices of women’s poetic work and anatomical study in early modern England. Asserting that poetry is a dimensional technology, Whitney Sperrazza demonstrates how women writers wielded poetics as a tool for scientific ... Read more

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  • Medieval Shakespeare

    Pasts and Presents

    Edited by Ruth Morse, Helen Cooper, Peter Holland ...
    For many, Shakespeare represents the advent of modernity. It is easy to forget that he was in fact a writer deeply embedded in the Middle Ages, who inherited many of his shaping ideas and assumptions from the medieval past. This collection brings together essays by internationally renowned scholars of medieval and early modern literature, the history of the book and theatre history to present new ... Read more

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  • Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature

    Emotions, ethics, dreams

    by Megan Leitch ...
    Series series Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
    Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. In the medieval English imagination, sleep is an embodied and culturally determined act. It is both performed and interpreted by characters and contemporaries, subject to a particular habitus and understood through particular hermeneutic lenses. While illuminating the intersecting medical and moral ... Read more

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  • Middle English Mouths

    Late Medieval Medical, Religious and Literary Traditions

    by Katie L. Walter ...
    Series Book 105 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    The mouth, responsible for both physical and spiritual functions - eating, drinking, breathing, praying and confessing - was of immediate importance to medieval thinking about the nature of the human being. Where scholars have traditionally focused on the mouth's grotesque excesses, Katie L. Walter argues for the recuperation of its material 'everyday' aspect. Walter's original study draws on two ... Read more

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  • Transformative Waters in Late-Medieval Literature

    From Aelred of Rievaulx to <I>The Book of Margery Kempe</I>

    by Hetta Elizabeth Howes ...
    Women are frequently depicted as unpredictable, difficult to categorise and prone to transformation in medieval religious writings. Water is equally elusive: rivers, wells and seas slip and slide out of the readers' grasp as they alter in metaphorical meaning.This book considers a large span of watery images in a small cluster of late-medieval devotional writings by and for women, in order to ... Read more

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  • Classical Literary Careers and their Reception

    Edited by Philip Hardie, Helen Moore ...
    This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on ancient Roman literary careers and their reception in later European literature, with contributions by leading experts. Starting from the three major Roman models for constructing a literary career - Virgil (the rota Vergiliana), Horace and Ovid - the volume then looks at alternative and counter-models in antiquity: Propertius, Juvenal, Cicero and ... Read more

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  • Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Literature

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