The essays of this collection explore how ideas about 'blood' in science and literature have supported, at various points in history and in various places in th

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This dissertation explores the institutionalization of discrimination based on "purity of blood," or limpieza de sangre, in sixteenth-century Spain. I utilize t

In the late nineteenth century, Spain’s most prominent writers – Juan Valera, Leopoldo Alas, and Benito Pérez Galdós – made blood a crucial feature of t