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Titre(s) : Bodily fluids in antiquity [Texte imprimé] / edited by Mark Bradley, Victoria Leonard, and Laurence Totelin
Publication : London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xix, 431 pages) : illustrations (black and white) ; 26 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"From ancient Egypt to Imperial Rome, from Greek medicine to early Christianity, this
volume examines how human bodily fluids influenced ideas about gender, sexuality,
politics, emotions, and morality, and how those ideas shaped later European thought.
Comprising 25 chapters across seven key themes - language, gender, eroticism, nutrition,
dissolution, death, and afterlife - this volume investigates bodily fluids in the
context of the current sensory turn. It asks fundamental questions about physicality
and fluidity: how were bodily fluids categorised and differentiated? How were fluids
trapped inside the body perceived, and how did this perception alter when those fluids
were externalised? Do ancient approaches complement or challenge our modern sensibilities
about bodily fluids? How were religious practices influenced by attitudes towards
bodily fluids, and how did religious authorities attempt to regulate or restrict their
appearance? Why were some fluids taboo, and others cherished? In what ways were bodily
fluids gendered? Offering a range of scholarly approaches and voices, this volume
explores how ideas about the body and the fluids it contained and externalised are
culturally conditioned and ideologically determined. The analysis encompasses the
key geographic centres of the ancient Mediterranean basin, including Greece, Rome,
Byzantium, and Egypt. By taking a longue durée perspective across a richly intertwined
set of territories, this collection is the first to provide a comprehensive, wide-ranging
study of bodily fluids in the ancient world. Bodily Fluids in Antiquity will be of
particular interest to academic readers working in the fields of classics and its
reception, archaeology, anthropology, and ancient to early modern history. It will
also appeal to more general readers with an interest in the history of the body and
history of medicine"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Bradley, Mark (1977-....). Éditeur scientifique
Leonard, Victoria. Éditeur scientifique
Totelin, Laurence M. V.. Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Liquides biologiques -- Antiquité
Civilisation classique
Civilisation occidentale -- Influence classique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781138343726. - ISBN 1138343722. - ISBN 9780367764067. - ISBN 0367764067. -
ISBN 9780429438974 (erroné). - ISBN 9780429798597 (erroné). - ISBN 9780429798603 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46809388x
Notice n° :
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Table des matières : Introduction / Mark Bradley, Victoria Leonard, and Laurence Totelin ; Fluid vocabulary
: flux in the lexicon of bodily emissions / Amy Coker ; A valid excuse for a day
off work : menstruation in an ancient Egyptian village / Rosalind Janssen ; Uterine
bleeding, knowledge and emotion in ancient Greek medical and magical representations
/ Irene Salvo ; Puellae gently glow : scent, sweat and the real in Latin love elegy
and Ovid's didactic works / Jane Burkowski ; Overflowing bodies and a pandora of
ivory : the pure humours of an erotic surrogate / Catalina Popescu ; The eyes have
it : from generative fluids to vision rays / Julie Laskaris ; 'Infertile' and 'sub-fertile'
semen in the Hippocratic corpus and the biological works of Aristotle / Rebecca Fallas
; Say it with fluids : what the body exudes and retains when Juvenal's couple relationships
go awry / Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet ; Flabby flesh and foetal formation
: body fluidity and foetal sex differentiation in Ancient Greek medicine / Tara Mulder
; One-seed, two-seed, three-seed? Reassessing ancient theories of generation / Rebecca
Flemming ; Phalli fighting with fluids : approaching images of ejaculating phalli
in the Roman world / Adam Parker ; A natural symbol? The (un)importance of blood
in early Greek literature and religion / Emily Kearns ; Taste and the senses in Galen's
humours / John Wilkins ; Breastmilk, breastfeeding and the female body in early Imperial
Rome / Thea Lawrence ; Breastmilk in the cave and on the arena : early Christian
stories of lactation in context / Laurence Totelin ; Tears and the leaky vessel :
permeable and fluid bodies in Ovid and Lucretius / Peter Kelly ; Seneca's Corpus
: a sympathy of fluids and fluctuations / Michael Goyette ; Bodily fluids, grotesque
imagery, and poetics in Persius' Satires / Andreas Gavrielatos ; 'Efflux is my manifestation'
: positive conceptions of putrefactive fluids in the ancient Egyptian coffin texts
/ Tasha Dobbin-Bennett ; Physiology of matricide : revenge and metabolism imagery
in Aeschylus' Oresteia / Goran Vidović ; Open wounds, liquid bodies, and melting
selves in early imperial Latin literature / Assaf Krebs ; The reception of classical
constructions of blood in medieval and early modern martyrologies / Anastasia Stylianou
; 'Expelling the purple tyrant from the citadel' : the menstruation debate in Book
2 of Abraham Cowley's Plantarum Libri Sex (1662) / Caroline Spearing ; Opening the
body of fluids : taking in and pouring out in Renaissance readings of classical women
/ Helen King ; Envoi / Mark Bradley and Victoria Leonard.