The Woman with the Blood Flow (Mark 5:24-34)
Narrative, Iconic, and Anthropological Spaces
Edited by B. Baert
Paperback (Published)
(January 2014)
ISBN: 9789042929647
Price: $107.00
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This publication starts from a particular passage in the New Testament that tells the story of a “woman with an issue of blood.” The gospel relates how the so-called Haemorrhoissa is healed the very moment she touches Christ’s garment. This publication forms the first – and so far the only – interdisciplinary study of this particular biblical motif from an exegetical, art-historical and anthropological point of view. Contributing scholars interpret the impact of this biblical miracle on Christian texts, material culture and healing archetypes in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity. The story and its Nachleben in literary commentaries and various iconographies unveil a particular energy in Christendom related to ideas about the female body, the role of textile, and the magical impact of touch. This volumes contributes to all research in the humanities concerned with gender, the sensorium, Judeo-Christian attitudes towards blood and taboo, and early Christian material culture in the East and West. Its trajectory ultimately reveals the crucial mystery at the heart of image-making as such.
- Edited by B. Baert
Other Titles in this Series
From Flow to Face
The Haemorrhoissa Motif (Mark 5:24b-34parr) between Anthropological Origin and Image Paradigm
Volume 3
Decapitation and Sacrifice
Saint John's Head in Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Text, Object, Medium
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Pneuma and the Visual Medium in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity
Essays on Wind, Ruach, Incarnation, Odour, Stains, Movement, Kairos, Web and Silence
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Utopia’s Doom
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