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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Some Notes on Usage | |
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| Introduction: A Frenzy for Blood | |
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| The Emergence of Blood Piety | |
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| Blood in the Fifteenth-Century North | |
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| Some Recent Approaches | |
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| Cults in Northern Germany | |
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| Wilsnack | |
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| The Events | |
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| Historiography | |
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| Blood at the Center | |
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| Treatises de Sanguine | |
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| Larger Questions | |
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| Cults in Mecklenburg and the Mark Brandenburg | |
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| Historiography and the Problem of the Evidence | |
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| Blood Cult in Middle Germany and the Havelland | |
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| North and West of Wilsnack | |
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| Anti-Jewish Libels Circa 1500: Sternberg and Berlin | |
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| The Fate of Cults in the Sixteenth-Century North | |
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| Holy Matter and the Jews | |
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| Blood Disputes in Fifteenth-Century Europe and Their Background | |
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| Debates About Eucharistic Transformations and Blood Relics | |
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| Visions and Transformations | |
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| The Practical Issue of Transformed Hosts | |
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| Concomitance and the Cup | |
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| The Debate over Blood Relics: Background | |
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| Grosseteste, Bonaventure, and Aquinas on Blood Relics and Identity | |
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| Gerhard of Cologne | |
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| Discussions of Blood Relics in the Fifteenth Century | |
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| Christ's Blood in the Triduum Mortis | |
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| Mayronis and the Barcelona Controversy of 1350-51 | |
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| John of Capistrano on the Precious Blood | |
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| The Triduum Mortis Debate of 1462-64 | |
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| Some Arguments Attributed to Nicholas of Cusa | |
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| Patterns in Dominican and Franciscan Theology | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Assumptions of Blood Piety | |
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| A Concern for Immutability | |
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| The Immutability Theme at Wilsnack | |
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| The Transformed-Hosts Debate: A Deeper Issue | |
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| Immutability in Debates over Blood Relics and Treatises de Sanguine | |
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| Wholeness and Immutability in Story and Cult | |
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| Devotional Images | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Living Blood Poured Out | |
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| Blood as Fertility | |
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| Blood as Social Survival | |
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| Blood as Engendering and Gendered | |
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| Blood as Sedes Animae | |
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| Continuity in Discontinuity: The Exsanguination of Christ | |
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| Blood as Alive | |
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| Blood as Separated and Shed | |
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| The Stress on Separation | |
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| Blood as Drops | |
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| The Revelation of the Hundred Pater Nosters | |
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| Accusation and Reproach | |
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| Blood as Symbol | |
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| The Deeper Paradox: Sacrifice | |
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| Sacrifice and Soteriology | |
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| Late Medieval Soteriology | |
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| Salvation as Satisfaction and Response: The Conventional Account | |
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| Salvation as Participation | |
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| Julian of Norwich | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Sacrificial Theology | |
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| The Biblical and Patristic Background | |
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| Destruction and Oblation | |
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| Sacrifice in Blood Cult and Controversy | |
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| The Sixteenth Century | |
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| The Aporia of Sacrifice | |
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| Questioning Blood: The Meditations on the Life of Christ | |
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| Avoiding Sacrifice | |
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| Who Sacrifices? Including/Excluding Christians and Blaming Jews | |
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| Sacrifice and the Marking of Matter | |
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| Conclusion: Why Blood? | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography of Works Cited | |
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| Index | |
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| Acknowledgments | |