Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XII, 232 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9789004244467
Series Statement:
Death in history, culture, and society volume 2
Content:
"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"--
Note:
Includes index
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Part 1. Gendering One's Corpse before Death: Wills and Burial Arrangements -- Part 2. Narrating Deaths: Killing and Being a Corpse as Gendered Performances.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004244450
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Death and gender in the early Modern Period Leiden : Brill, 2024 ISBN 9789004244450
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004244467
