Death and Gender in the Early Modern Period (Death in History, Culture, and Society, 2)

✍ Scribed by Enrique Fernandez (editor), Darlene Abreu-ferreira (editor)

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Year: 2024
Tongue: English
Leaves: 242
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

In late medieval and early modern Europe, death could reinforce, question or efface the category of gender, as evidenced by the preparation for death, executions, burial practices and the cult of the dead.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Figures and Tables
Figures
Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Gender beyond Death
Part 1: Gendering One’s Corpse before Death: Wills and Burial Arrangements
01 Postmortem Cross-Dressing and Other Gendered Aspects of Lay Death and
Works Cited
Archival Sources
Printed Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
02 Gender, Race, and Death in Sixteenth-Century Lisbon
1 Death in Santa Cruz: an Introduction
2 Lisbon in 1569
3 Gender and Death
4 Race and Death
5 Conclusion
Appendix
July
August
September
October
November
December
03 Gender, Death, and Writing in Seville in the Late Middle Ages: Wome
1 Women in the Libro Blanco and the Libro de Dotaciones
2 Conclusions
Appendix
04 Thinking Outside the Box: Death and Gender in Women’s Autobiographical
1 Anne Askew: “Like as the armed knight appointed to the field”
2 Hester Pulter: “Why, my soul, are thou so fond to stay?”
3 Isabella Whitney: “Never more mee name”
4 Last Words
Part2: Narrating Deaths: Killing and Being a
05 Good Deaths, Bad Deaths: Deathbed Narratives, Gender, and Politics in Late
1 The Good Death
2 The Bad Death(s)
3 Conclusion
06 Gendered Executions and the Exceptional Repression of Sodomy and Suicide
Works Cited
Manuscript Sources
Printed Sources
07 Death and Dismemberment
Works Cited
08 The Gender of Relics and
1 The Gender of the Resurrected Body
2 The Remnant Gender of Human Remains
3 The Baptised Relics of the Descalzas Reales and the Jewelled Skeletons of Bavaria
4 The Gender-Bending Skeletons of the Danse Macabre
5 Conclusions: Envisioning Gender beyond Death
09 “Un[Gender] Me Here”: Gender, Sex, and Rewriting the Masculin
Name Index

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