• Bodily Fluids in Antiquity

    Editor(s):
    Mark Bradley, Victoria Leonard (see profile) , Laurence Totelin
    Date:
    2021
    Subject(s):
    History, Ancient, Human body--Sociological aspects, Feminism
    Item Type:
    Book
    Tag(s):
    Ancient history, Classics, Sociology of the body, Gender studies
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/7gb1-6484
    Abstract:
    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 24 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.
    Notes:
    For a full table of contents and further information, see here: https://www.routledge.com/Bodily-Fluids-in-Antiquity/Bradley-Leonard-Totelin/p/book/9781138343726
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    Publisher:
    Routledge
    Pub. Date:
    2021
    ISBN:
    ISBN 9781138343726
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    2 years ago
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