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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