Death and Gender in the Early Modern Period

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).

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Gender beyond DeathPart 1: Gendering One’s Corpse before Death: Wills and Burial Arrangements1 Postmortem Cross-Dressing and Other Gendered Aspects of Lay Death and Burial in Religious Habits, ca. 1350–1650Kirsten Schut2 Gender, Race, and Death in Sixteenth-Century LisbonDarlene Abreu-Ferreira3 Gender, Death, and Writing in Seville in the Late Middle Ages: Women in the Libro Blanco and the Libro de DotacionesDiego Belmonte Fernández4 Thinking Outside the Box: Death and Gender in Women’s Autobiographical Poems in Early Modern EnglandMarlene DirschauerPart 2: Narrating Deaths: Killing and Being a Corpse as Gendered Performances5 Good Deaths, Bad Deaths: Deathbed Narratives, Gender, and Politics in Late Quattrocento FlorenceKaren Burch6 Gendered Executions and the Exceptional Repression of Sodomy and Suicide in Late Medieval FlandersMireille J. Pardon7 Death and Dismemberment in Zayas’s WorldMarina S. Brownlee8 The Gender of Relics and Memento MoriEnrique Fernandez9 “Un[Gender] Me Here”: Gender, Sex, and Rewriting the Masculine in Shakespeare’s MacbethDeirdra ShupeIndex