Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Enrique Fernandez and Darlene Abreu-Ferreira -- Notes on Contributors / Enrique Fernandez and Darlene Abreu-Ferreira -- Part 1 Gendering One’s Corpse before Death: Wills and Burial Arrangements / Enrique Fernandez and Darlene Abreu-Ferreira -- Chapter 1 Postmortem Cross-Dressing and Other Gendered Aspects of Lay Death and Burial in Religious Habits, ca. 1350–1650 / Kirsten Schut -- Chapter 2 Gender, Race, and Death in Sixteenth-Century Lisbon / Darlene Abreu-Ferreira -- Chapter 3 Gender, Death, and Writing in Seville in the Late Middle Ages: Women in the Libro Blanco and the Libro de Dotaciones / Diego Belmonte Fernández -- Chapter 4 Thinking Outside the Box: Death and Gender in Women’s Autobiographical Poems in Early Modern England / Marlene Dirschauer -- Part 2 Narrating Deaths: Killing and Being a Corpse as Gendered Performances / Enrique Fernandez and Darlene Abreu-Ferreira -- Chapter 5 Good Deaths, Bad Deaths: Deathbed Narratives, Gender, and Politics in Late Quattrocento Florence / Karen Joy Burch -- Chapter 6 Gendered Executions and the Exceptional Repression of Sodomy and Suicide in Late Medieval Flanders / Mireille J. Pardon -- Chapter 7 Death and Dismemberment in Zayas’s World / Marina S. Brownlee -- Chapter 8 The Gender of Relics and Memento Mori / Enrique Fernandez -- Chapter 9 “Un[Gender] Me Here”: Gender, Sex, and Rewriting the Masculine in Shakespeare’s Macbeth / Deirdra Shupe.

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.

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