Death and Gender in the Early Modern Period (Death in History, Culture, and Society)

Fernandez, Enrique (EDT)/ Abreu-Ferreira, Darlene (EDT)

Brill（2024/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 232 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004244450
• DDC分類 306.90940903

Full Description

In premodern Europe, the gender identity of those waiting for Doomsday in their tombs could be reaffirmed, readjusted, or even neutralized. Testimonies of this renegotiation of gender at the encounter with death is detectable in wills, letters envisioning oneself as dead, literary narratives, provisions for burial and memorialization, the laws for the disposal of those executed for heinous crimes and the treatment of human remains as relics.

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Gender beyond Death

Part 1: Gendering One's Corpse before Death: Wills and Burial Arrangements

1 Postmortem Cross-Dressing and Other Gendered Aspects of Lay Death and Burial in Religious Habits, ca. 1350-1650

 Kirsten Schut

2 Gender, Race, and Death in Sixteenth-Century Lisbon

 Darlene Abreu-Ferreira

3 Gender, Death, and Writing in Seville in the Late Middle Ages: Women in the Libro Blanco and the Libro de Dotaciones

 Diego Belmonte Fernández

4 Thinking Outside the Box: Death and Gender in Women's Autobiographical Poems in Early Modern England

 Marlene Dirschauer

Part 2: Narrating Deaths: Killing and Being a Corpse as Gendered Performances

5 Good Deaths, Bad Deaths: Deathbed Narratives, Gender, and Politics in Late Quattrocento Florence

 Karen Burch

6 Gendered Executions and the Exceptional Repression of Sodomy and Suicide in Late Medieval Flanders

 Mireille J. Pardon

7 Death and Dismemberment in Zayas's World

 Marina S. Brownlee

8 The Gender of Relics and Memento Mori

 Enrique Fernandez

9 "Un[Gender] Me Here": Gender, Sex, and Rewriting the Masculine in Shakespeare's Macbeth

 Deirdra Shupe

Index