Between Dung and Blood

Between Dung and Blood investigates the stories of two sixteenth-century saints: the Spanish Christian Teresa de Jess and the Moroccan Sufi Sd Riwn al-Januw, both from families of converts. Through the stories of these saints, Manuela Ceballos reveals the roles played by blood and bodily pollution as substances and symbols in the religious and political fabric of the early modern Western Mediterra...