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