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. 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.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
May 2023 |
First published: |
2021 |
Editors: |
Mark Bradley
• Victoria Leonard
• Laurence Totelin
|
Dimensions: |
246 x 174mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
432 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-367-76406-7 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-367-76406-7 |
Barcode: |
9780367764067 |
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