Juice of Life: The Symbolic and Magic Significance of Blood - Rilegato

Camporesi, Piero

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0826408338 ISBN 13: 9780826408334

Casa editrice: Continuum Intl Pub Group, 1995

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

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

Product Description:

Book by Camporesi Piero

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Continuum Intl Pub Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0826408338
• ISBN 13: 9780826408334
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 139