Faculty of Arts, Medieval Art, History of Christian Art, Iconology Research Group (IRG), Catholic University of Leuven, Room 04.05, Blijde inkomststraat 21/Postbus 3313, 3000, Leuven, Belgium,
J Relig Health. 2012 Sep;51(3):663-81. doi: 10.1007/s10943-012-9618-5.
The textual and visual tradition of the story of the woman with the haemorrhage (Mark 5.24b-34parr), the so-called Haemorrhoissa, is related in a specific way to Christ's healing miracles but also to conceptions of female menstrual blood. We notice that with regard to the specific 'issue of blood' of the Haemorrhoissa, there is a visual lacuna in the specific iconography that developed around the story from early Christian times: in the transposition from text to image, there is no immediate depiction of her bleeding. However, the early medieval reception of the story also became an important catalyst for uterine taboos, menstruation and tits relation to magical healing, understood as a system of health practices. In this context, the dissemination of the motif in everyday material culture clearly points to a deep-rooted connection to uterine and menstrual issues. The paper considers both expressions and their-anthropologically framed-relation to this female 'issue of blood', which the Haemorrhoissa came to embody and epitomise literally, as well as figuratively.
《有血漏的女人（可 5:24b-34parr）的文本和视觉传统》，也被称为《血漏妇人》，以一种特定的方式与基督的治愈奇迹以及女性月经血的概念相关。我们注意到，对于血漏妇人的特定“经血”问题，在从早期基督教时代就开始发展的特定图像中存在视觉空白：在从文本到图像的转换中，没有立即描绘她出血的画面。然而，这个故事在中世纪早期的接受也成为子宫禁忌、月经和乳房与神奇治愈之间关系的重要催化剂，被理解为一种健康实践体系。在这种背景下，这个主题在日常物质文化中的传播清楚地表明与子宫和月经问题有着根深蒂固的联系。本文既考虑了这些表达方式，也考虑了它们与这个女性“经血”问题的关系，这个问题被血漏妇人具体体现和象征，无论是字面上还是比喻上。
