The woman with the blood flow (Mark 5:24-34)
Subtitle: narrative, iconic, and anthropological spaces
By: edited by Barbara Baert ; with the collaboration of Niels Schalley
Series: Art & religion -- 2; Art & religion -- 2.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leuven; Walpole, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9789042929647
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Christian art and symbolism; Markusevangelium; Healing of the woman with the flow of blood (Miracle); Fortleben; Blutflüssige Frau; Blood in the Bible; Bibel; Blutung; Miracles of Jesus Christ; Künste; Healing in art; Women in the Bible; History; Miracles; Heilung; Art; Wunderheilung; Christusdarstellung; Women in Christianity; Healing in the Bible; Early church; Bible and anthropology
Description: "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 &#x2013; 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. The Woman with the Blood Flow (Mark 5:24-34). Narrative, Iconic, and Anthropological Spaces 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."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Essays in English, French and German.
Table of contents: title: General Introduction. Touching the Hem -- Barbara BAERT -- Section 1:; title: THE NARRATIVE SPACE --; title: Opérer une brèche dans les règles de pureté en vue d'être sauvée. Le cas de la femme qui souffrait d'hémorragie (Mc 5:24-34)  -- Camille FOCANT; title: Cleansed in the Wine of the Passion. On the Role of Jesus' Garment in the Story of the Haemorrhaging Woman  -- Laura TACK; title: Power, Knowledge and the Bodies of Women in Mark 5:21-43  -- Mary R. D'ANGELO -- Section 2:; title: THE ICONIC SPACE --; title: The Healing of the Haemorrhaging Woman on Fourth-Century Sarcophagi from Rome  -- Elizabeth Struthers MALBON; title: Narrative and Symbol. The Early Christian Image of the Haemorrhoissa and the Mosaics in the Narthex of the Kariye Camii  -- David KNIPP; title: The Haemorrhoissa in Eastern Christian Art. A Preliminary Access  -- Branislav CVETKOVIĆ; title: Touching and Not Touching Jesus. The Haemorrhaging Woman in the Narrative and Visual Culture of the Early Middle Ages (fourth- eleventh Century)  -- Liesbet KUSTERS; title: On the Potentiality of Absence. On the Disappearance of the Haemorrhaging Woman  -- Diane APOSTOLOS-CAPPADONA; title: L'image possible. La Femme qui perdait son sang à Panéas, et que Jésus miraculeusement guérit, dans le discours de l'image chrétienne  -- Pierre Antoine FABRE -- Section 3:; title: THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SPACE --; title: Does Blood Have Gender in Jewish Culture?  -- David BIALE; title: When a dormant Power Overflows. The articulation of Dunamis in the Early Christian Haemorrhoissa Motif  -- Emma SIDGWICK; title: Die Überschreitung des anthropologischen Raumes. Gewandsaum, Nachfolge und Transformation -- Ellen HARLIZIUS-KLÜCK-- PROJECT BIBLIOGRAPHY.