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May 3, 2018 · Today's scientists understand blood as a liquid comprising components essential to good health. But English remains a language peppered with references to blood that hint at our conflicted relationship with a liquid vital to human life.
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The ancient civilizations on which medieval European culture was based - whether Roman, Greek, Germanic, or Hebrew - already accorded blood great significance, in blood sacrifices, heroic bloodshed, exchange of blood, and blood-centred physiology.
Oct 30, 2015 · Long before the English physician William Harvey discovered the manner in which blood circulates through the body in the 17th century, cultures across the world, from time immemorial, understood blood as both an actual and a symbolic element, the very essence of life.
‘The poetics of blood’ considers Gothic romanticism, and the contemporary influences of science (which gave birth to the notion of vampires) and politics on the explosion of Gothic-inspired creativity of the era.
From linguistics to art to spirituality and religion, blood flows through collective consciousness across history, shifting and changing in context, but always meaning something to us. In this essay, we ask what does blood symbolize, beyond its role in medicine?
This thesis explores two critical issues: first, it redresses the lack of. research into discourses of blood in Old English literature, and second, it explores whether or not this discourse has the same cultural meanings and symbolization as that of later periods of the Middle Ages.
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BLOOD rites are so common that the student of religion must ask about their meaning. Is there a basic, common meaning, or are there several not reducible to a single one? One common answer is to attribute a special power to blood: It is a "divine sanguinary sub-stance" which revivifies the divinity and so gives force to rites.I But
