This publication starts from a particular passage in the New Testament
that tells the story of a “woman with an issue of blood.” The gospel
relates how the so-called Haemorrhoissa is healed the very moment she
touches Christ's garment. This publication forms the first - and so far
the only – interdisciplinary study of this particular biblical motif
from an exegetical, art-historical and anthropological point of view.









Contributing scholars interpret the impact of this biblical miracle on
Christian texts, material culture and healing archetypes in the Middle
Ages and Early Modernity. The story and its Nachleben in literary
commentaries and various iconographies unveil a particular energy in
Christendom related to ideas about the female body, the role of textile,
and the magical impact of touch.









The Woman with the Blood Flow (Mark 5:24-34). Narrative, Iconic, and
Anthropological Spaces contributes to all research in the humanities
concerned with gender, the sensorium, Judeo-Christian attitudes
towards blood and taboo, and early Christian material culture in the
East and West. Its trajectory ultimately reveals the crucial mystery at
the heart of image-making as such.