Author: Enrique Fernández
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789004244450
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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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.
Author: Lucinda M. Becker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Author: Lucinda M. Becker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781138277946
Category : Death in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Lucinda Becker's study explores the female experience of death in early modern England. It shows that women had a unique and discernible relationship to death during that period, a relationship that can now be exploited to increase our understanding of the period and its treatment of femininity
Author: Merry E. Wiesner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108496997
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
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This new edition of Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey features significant changes to reflect the newest scholarship in every chapter.
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004244468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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IIn 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.
Author: Penny Richards
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317875516
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Surveying court life and urban life, warfare, religion, and peace, this book provides a comprehensive history of how gender was experienced in early modern Europe. Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe shows how definitions of sexuality and gender roles operated and more particularly, how such definitions--and the activities they generated and reflected--articulated concerns inside a given culture. This means that the volume embodies an interdisciplinary approach: literature as well as history, religious studies, economics, and gender studies form the basis of this cultural history of early modern Europe. There are new approaches to understanding famous figures, such as Elizabeth I, James VI and I and his wife Anna of Denmark; Francis I; St. Teresa of Avila. Other chapters investigate topics such as militarism and court culture, and wider groups, such as urban citizens and noble families. The collection also studies ways in which gender and sexual orientation were represented in literature, as well as examinations of the theoretical issues involved in studying history from the angle of gender.
Author: Marianna Muravyeva
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415537231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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This book attempts to challenge the canonical gender concept while trying to specify what gender was in the medieval and early modern world. It tests, verifies, and challenges the methodology and use the concept(s) of gender specifically applicable to the period of great change and transition. The volume contains theoretical discussion supplemented by case studies of specific practices such as mysticism, witchcraft, crime, and sexual behavior.
Author: Craig Spence
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783271353
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Between the mid-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth centuries more than 15,000 Londoners suffered sudden violent deaths. While this figure includes around 3,000 who were murdered or committed suicide, the vast majority of fatalities resulted from accidents. In the early modern period, accidental and 'disorderly' deaths - from drowning, falls, stabbing, shooting, fires, explosions, suffocation, animals and vehicles, among other causes - were a regular feature of urban life and left a significant mark in the archival records of the period. This book provides the first substantive critical study of the early modern accident, revealing and chronicling the lives - and deaths - of hundreds of otherwise unknown Londoners. Drawing on the weekly London Bills of Mortality, parish burial registers, newspapers and other related documents, it examines accidents and other forms of violent death in the city with a view to understanding who among its residents encountered such events, how the bureaucracy recorded and elaborated their circumstances and why they did so, and what practical responses might follow. Through a systematic review of the character of accidents, medical and social interventions, and changing attitudes toward the regulation of hazards across the metropolis, it establishes the historical significance of the accident and shows how, as the eighteenth century progressed, providential explanations gave way to a more rational viewpoint that saw certain accident events as threats to be managed rather than misfortunes to be explained. Additionally, the book explores how knowledge of such incidents was transformed to become a recurring cultural trope in oral, textual and visual narratives of metropolitan life, thereby opening a window to the way in which sudden death and violent injury was understood by early modern mentalities. CRAIG SPENCE is Senior Lecturer in History at Bishop Grosseteste University.
Author: Lori Jones
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1914049098
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 375
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Juxtaposing and interlacing similarities and differences across and beyond the pre-modern Mediterranean world, Christian, Islamic and Jewish healing traditions, the collection highlights and nuances some of the recent critical advances in scholarship on death and disease.
Author: Karl Siegfried Guthke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521644600
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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An illustrated historical study of gendered personifications of death in Western art, literature, and culture.
