Introduction
-Bonnie Lander Johnson and Eleanor Decamp
I. CIRCULATION
Chapter 1. Was the Heart "Dethroned"?: Harvey's Discoveries and the Politics of Blood, Heart, and Circulation
-Margaret Healy
Chapter 2. "The Lake of my Heart": Blood, Containment, and the Boundaries of the Person in the Writing of Dante and Catherine of Siena
-Heather Webb
Chapter 3. Sorting Pistol's Blood: Social Class and the Circulation of Character in Shakespeare's 2 Henry IV and Henry V
-Katharine Craik
II. WOUNDS
Chapter 4. Mantled in Blood: Shakespeare's Bloodstains and Early Modern Textile Culture
-Hester Lees-Jeffries
Chapter 5. Rethinking Nosebleeds: Gendering Spontaneous Bleedings in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine
-Gabriella Zuccolin and Helen King
Chapter 6. Screaming Bleeding Trees: Textual Wounding and the Epic Tradition
-Joe Moshenska
III. CORRUPTION
Chapter 7. Corruption, Generation, and the Problem of Menstrua in Early Modern Alchemy
-Tara Nummedal
Chapter 8. Bloody Students: Youth, Corruption, and Discipline in the Medieval Classroom
-Ben Parsons
Chapter 9. Blood, Milk, Poison: Romeo and Juliet's Tragedy of "Green" Desire and Corrupted Blood
-Bonnie Lander Johnson
IV. PROOF
Chapter 10. "In Every Wound there is a Bloody Tongue": Cruentation in Early Modern Literature and Psychology
-Lesel Dawson
Chapter 11. "In such abundance … that it fill a Bason": Early Modern Bleeding Bowls
-Eleanor Decamp
Chapter 12. Macbeth and the Croxton Play of the Sacrament: Blood and Belief in Early English Stagecraft
-Elisabeth Dutton
Chapter 13. Simular Proof, Tragicomic Turns, and Cymbeline's Bloody Cloth
-Patricia Parker
V. SIGNS AND SUBSTANCE
Chapter 14. Blood of the Grape
-Frances E. Dolan
Chapter 15. Blood on the Butcher's Knife: Images of Pig Slaughter in Late Medieval Illustrated Calendars
-Dolly JØrgensen
Chapter 16. Queer Blood
-Helen Barr
Notes
Bibliography
Index
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments