TY - BOOK ID - 85814451 TI - Bodily fluids in antiquity AU - Bradley, Mark AU - Leonard, Victoria AU - Totelin, Laurence M.V. PY - 2021 SN - 9781138343726 1138343722 9780367764067 0367764067 9780429438974 9780429798597 9780429798603 0429438974 0429798598 0429798601 9780429798580 042979858X PB - London and New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Body fluids KW - Civilization, Classical KW - Civilization, Western KW - Classical civilization KW - Civilization, Ancient KW - Classicism KW - Animal fluids and humors KW - Body humors KW - Fluids, Body KW - Fluids and humors, Animal KW - Humors, Body KW - History KW - Classical influences KW - 27 <08> KW - 937/938 <08> KW - 937/938 <08> Geschiedenis van de Klassieke Oudheid--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen KW - Geschiedenis van de Klassieke Oudheid--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen KW - 27 <08> Histoire de l'Eglise--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen KW - 27 <08> Kerkgeschiedenis--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen KW - Histoire de l'Eglise--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen KW - Kerkgeschiedenis--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen KW - Body fluids. KW - Civilization, Classical. KW - Classical influences. KW - Medicine / The body / Identity / Gender / Sexuality / Ancient Egypt / Greece / Rome / Byzantium / Persia / Reception / Sensory turn / Emotions / Classical literature / Ancient religion UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85814451 AB - "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 dureĢe 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"-- ER -