LEADER 04236nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910807455903321 005 20240418022601.0 010 $a1-283-21185-8 010 $a9786613211859 010 $a0-8122-0275-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202755 035 $a(CKB)2550000000051235 035 $a(OCoLC)759158284 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10492041 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000543419 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11324891 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000543419 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10531177 035 $a(PQKB)10861667 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3171 035 $a(DE-B1597)449131 035 $a(OCoLC)979954185 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202755 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441584 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10492041 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321185 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441584 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051235 100 $a20021022d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe curse of Eve, the wound of the hero $eblood, gender, and medieval literature /$fPeggy McCracken 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (191 p.) 225 1 $aThe Middle Ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-3713-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $t1 Only Women Bleed -- $t2 The Amenorrhea of War -- $t3 The Gender of Sacrifice -- $t4 Menstruation and Monstrous Birth -- $t5 The Scene of Parturition -- $t6 The Grail and Its Hosts -- $tConclusion: Bleeding for Love -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero, Peggy McCracken explores the role of blood symbolism in establishing and maintaining the sex-gender systems of medieval culture. Reading a variety of literary texts in relation to historical, medical, and religious discourses about blood, and in the context of anthropological and religious studies, McCracken offers a provocative examination of the ways gendered cultural values were mapped onto blood in the Middle Ages.As McCracken demonstrates, blood is gendered when that of men is prized in stories about battle and that of women is excluded from the public arena in which social and political hierarchies are contested and defined through chivalric contest. In her examination of the conceptualization of familial relationships, she uncovers the privileges that are grounded in gendered definitions of blood relationships. She shows that in narratives about sacrifice a father's relationship to his son is described as a shared blood, whereas texts about women accused of giving birth to monstrous children define the mother's contribution to conception in terms of corrupted, often menstrual blood. Turning to fictional representations of bloody martyrdom and of eucharistic ritual, McCracken juxtaposes the blood of the wounded guardian of the grail with that of Christ and suggests that the blood from the grail king's wound is characterized in opposition to that of women and Jewish men.Drawing on a range of French and other literary texts, McCracken shows how the dominant ideas about blood in medieval culture point to ways of seeing modern values associated with blood in a new light, and how modern representations in turn suggest new perspectives on medieval perceptions. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aLiterature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBlood in literature 606 $aSex role in literature 610 $aJewish Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 615 0$aLiterature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBlood in literature. 615 0$aSex role in literature. 676 $a809/.9335 700 $aMcCracken$b Peggy$01106565 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807455903321 996 $aThe curse of Eve, the wound of the hero$94026398 997 $aUNINA