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This interdisciplinary collection of essays, containing chapters from specialists in history, art history, medical history, and literature, examines how the intimately familiar language of the body served as a convenient medium through which to imagine and describe transformations of the larger world, both for the better and also for the worse. Its individual contributors demonstrate the myriad ways in which rethinking the human body was one way to approach rethinking the social, political, and religious realities of the world from the Middle Ages until the early modern period.

Christian theology --- Human physiology --- Iconography --- Thematology --- tear [secretion] --- blood [animal material] --- crying [weeping] --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Europe --- Human body --- Human body in literature --- Human figure in art --- Human body in literature. --- Symbolic aspects. --- History --- Religious aspects --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Mind and body --- Human body in art --- Art --- Composition (Art) --- Figurative art --- Anatomy, Artistic --- Figure drawing --- Figure painting --- Symbolic aspects of the human body --- Symbolism --- Blood. --- bodily humours. --- corporeality. --- devotion. --- emotions. --- tears. --- crying --- lichaam (van de mens)