Gender, Age, and Identity
Book chapter
Broomhall, Susan. (2024). Gender, Age, and Identity. In In Raeburn, Gordon D. and Warne, Nathaniel A. (Ed.). A Cultural History of Death in the Renaissance pp. 99 Bloomsbury Academic.
Authors | Broomhall, Susan |
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Editors | Raeburn, Gordon D. and Warne, Nathaniel A. |
Abstract | End of life rituals and mourning are fundamentally shaped by the performance of a range of social identities, both enacted by the dying and their communities. In the period 1450 to 1650, the corporeal and the material established and reinforced identities that defined death cultures in profound ways. These markers included social status, age, gender, and race and confessional identity. Jewish communities generally practiced behaviors surrounding death apart from Christian Europe, but this period was to rend the Christian social fabric in profound ways that were not only reflected in death rituals and commemorative behaviors of women and men but also provoked widespread deaths in wars and massacres of individuals who would be defined by, and killed for, their faith. This chapter explores the powerful effect of such identity markers in shaping the experience of death for both individuals and communities across Europe. |
Keywords | end of life; death; ritual; Judaism ; Chrisitanity; identity; Renaissance |
Page range | 99 |
114 | |
Year | 01 Jan 2024 |
Book title | A Cultural History of Death in the Renaissance |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
Edition | 1st |
Series | The Cultural Histories Series |
ISBN | 978-1-4725-3756-0 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com/encyclopedia-chapter?docid=b-9781474206358&tocid=b-9781474206358-chapter6&pdfid=9781474206358.ch-6.pdf |
Open access | Published as non-open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 2024 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 26 Sep 2024 |
Additional information | © Bloomsbury Academic, 2024 |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/90y4z/gender-age-and-identity
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