Juice of Life: Symbolic and Magic Significance of Blood - Hardcover

Camporesi, Piero

 
9780826408334: Juice of Life: Symbolic and Magic Significance of Blood
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0826408338 ISBN 13: 9780826408334
Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 1995

Inhaltsangabe

From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, bodily fluids or "humors" - whether blood, semen, or phlegm - obsessed the educated and ignorant alike. These "elixirs" were believed to possess magical powers guaranteeing long life, sexual potency, intellectual insight (particularly in women), and even holiness.
Piero Camporesi, a specialist in popular culture from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, tells this fascinating story with an abundance of examples, still of great relevance to those of us who drink "cordials" for revitalizing the heart, take potions for sexual vigor, and believe that a ruddy complexion is a sign of health. This is also a proto-feminist story, for women's purified body, with its menstrual discharge, endows her with greater intelligence - a paradoxical but revolutionary conclusion in an era of misogyny.

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Piero Camporesi is professor of humanities at the University of Bologna.

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Verlag
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0826408338
ISBN 13 
9780826408334
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
120
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