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Scanned image of the book's front cover Piero Camporesi; trans. Robert R. Barr; foreword by Umberto Eco. 
Juice of Life: The Symbolic and Magic Significance of Blood.
New York: Continuum, 1995.
ISBN 0826408338;
ISBN-13: 9780826408334.

Hardback, perfect bound.
141x216x16mm.
139pp. 
English.
Good to very good condition: vertical creases to both flyleaves of the dustjacket; binding starting to split in front of the title page, though no pages are detached. 

This item £18.50 
303g. 

Emphasis late medieval and early modern. An examination of views on bodily fluids or humours. "This is also a proto-feminist story... a paradoxical but revolutionary conclusion in an era of misogyny."  

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