Grief, Gender, and Identity in the Middle Ages

Knowing Sorrow
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-31512-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 18, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 636 g

Reihe: Explorations in Medieval Culture

This edited collection examines the ways in which medieval grief is both troubled and troubling––troubled in its representation, troubling to categories such as gender, identity, hierarchy, theology, and history, among others. Investigating various instantiations of grief—sorrow, sadness, and mourning; weeping and lamentation; spiritual and theological disorientation and confusion; keening and the drinking of blood; and grief-madness—through a number of theoretical lenses, including feminist, gender, and queer theories, as well as philosophical, sociological, and historical approaches to emotion, the collected essays move beyond simply describing how men and women grieve in the Middle Ages and begin interrogating the ways grief intersects with and shapes gender identity.

Contributors are Kim Bergqvist, Jim Casey, Danielle Marie Cudmore, Marjorie Housley, Erin. I. Mann, Inna Matyushina, Drew Maxwell, Kristen Mills, Jeffery G. Stoyanoff, Lee Templeton, and Kisha G. Tracy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Templeton, Lee

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Über Autor(innen)

Lee Templeton (Ph.D., 2006) is Associate Professor of English at North Carolina Wesleyan College. His work has appeared in Medieval Perspectives and The Ballad of the Lone Medievalist, and he is the co-editor of New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature: Essays in Honor of Denise N. Baker.