Death and Gender in the Early Modern Period

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-24445-0
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 488 g

Reihe: Death in History, Culture, and Society

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Fernandez, Enrique

Abreu-Ferreira, Darlene

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Enrique Fernandez, PhD (Princeton 1998) is professor of Spanish at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He has published articles and monographs on early modern Spain, including the book Anxiety of Interiority and Dissection in Early Modern Spain (University of Toronto Press, 2015)

Darlene Abreu-Ferreira is professor of history at the University of Winnipeg. Her research interests include history of women, children, race, sex, and crime in premodern Europe, with a focus on early modern Portugal. She published her monograph Women, Crime, and Forgiveness in Early Modern Portugal in 2015 (Ashgate).