List of Illustrations
Preface
Some Notes on Usage
Chapter 1. Introduction: A Frenzy for Blood
-The Emergence of Blood Piety
-Blood in the Fifteenth-Century North
-Some Recent Approaches
PART I. CULTS IN NORTHERN GERMANY
Chapter 2. Wilsnack
-The Events
-Historiography
-Blood at the Center
-Treatises de Sanguine
-Larger Questions
Chapter 3. Cults in Mecklenburg and the Mark Brandenburg
-Historiography and the Problem of the Evidence
-Blood Cult in Middle Germany and the Havelland
-North and West of Wilsnack
-Anti-Jewish Libels Circa 1500: Sternberg and Berlin
-The Fate of Cults in the Sixteenth-Century North
-Holy Matter and the Jews
PART II. BLOOD DISPUTES IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE AND THEIR BACKGROUND
Chapter 4. Debates About Eucharistic Transformations and Blood Relics
-Visions and Transformations
-The Practical Issue of Transformed Hosts
-Concomitance and the Cup
-The Debate over Blood Relics: Background
-Grosseteste, Bonaventure, and Aquinas on Blood Relics and Identity
-Gerhard of Cologne
-Discussions of Blood Relics in the Fifteenth Century
Chapter 5. Christ's Blood in the Triduum Mortis
-Mayronis and the Barcelona Controversy of 1350-51
-John of Capistrano on the Precious Blood
-The Triduum Mortis Debate of 1462-64
-Some Arguments Attributed to Nicholas of Cusa
-Patterns in Dominican and Franciscan Theology
-Conclusion
PART III. THE ASSUMPTIONS OF BLOOD PIETY
Chapter 6. A Concern for Immutability
-The Immutability Theme at Wilsnack
-The Transformed-Hosts Debate: A Deeper Issue
-Immutability in Debates over Blood Relics and Treatises de Sanguine
-Wholeness and Immutability in Story and Cult
-Devotional Images
-Conclusion
Chapter 7. Living Blood Poured Out
-Blood as Fertility
-Blood as Social Survival
-Blood as Engendering and Gendered
-Blood as Sedes Animae
-Continuity in Discontinuity: The Exsanguination of Christ
-Blood as Alive
Chapter 8. Blood as Separated and Shed
-The Stress on Separation
-Blood as Drops
-The Revelation of the Hundred Pater Nosters
-Accusation and Reproach
-Blood as Symbol
-The Deeper Paradox: Sacrifice
PART IV. SACRIFICE AND SOTERIOLOGY
Chapter 9. Late Medieval Soteriology
-Salvation as Satisfaction and Response: The Conventional Account
-Salvation as Participation
-Julian of Norwich
-Conclusion
Chapter 10. Sacrificial Theology
-The Biblical and Patristic Background
-Destruction and Oblation
-Sacrifice in Blood Cult and Controversy
-The Sixteenth Century
Chapter 11. The Aporia of Sacrifice
-Questioning Blood: The Meditations on the Life of Christ
-Avoiding Sacrifice
-Who Sacrifices? Including/Excluding Christians and Blaming Jews
-Sacrifice and the Marking of Matter
Chapter 12. Conclusion: Why Blood?
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments
