Blood Cries Out: Negotiating Embodiment and Otherness in the Premodern World.
- Author / Editor
- Kelly, Maggie S.
Blood Cries Out: Negotiating Embodiment and Otherness in the Premodern World.
- Published
- Ph.D. dissertation (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2023), Dissertation Abstracts International A84.12(E). Fully accessible at https://libres.uncg.edu/ir/listing.aspx?id=46652 (accessed January 31, 2025).
- Physical Description
- vi, 206 pp.
- Description
- Addresses "medieval and early modern literary uses of blood symbolism to describe and represent these marginalized groups: Christ, women, Jews, and disabled persons." Chapter 4 considers "the concepts of ritual murder libel, blood libel, and Jewish male menstruation" in PrT, Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice," and Marlowe's "The Jew of Malta."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale