Just released: Thinking through Death: The Politics of the Corpse, ed. Valeria Finucci, Special Issue: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 45, no. 1 (2015) This special issue of JMEMS addresses different ways of thinking through death and dying in the medieval and early modern period, including different philosophical and legal positions concerning the relationships between the body and its parts, corpses and burial sites, the bodies of saints and the bodies of criminals, the bodies of the dying confessing on their deathbeds and the bodies of suicides choosing to be buried with their souls unprepared. A new frame of knowledge becomes possible when we familiarize ourselves with the face of death. The six essays presented in this special issue do not revolt against the prospect of death, do not neglect what in the early modern period was called “the art of living and dying,” but perform their own version of the “dance of death” as they reconstruct in multifaceted layers the social and at times the political reality of dying present in an array of medieval and early modern European materials Contents: 1. Valeria Finucci, Thinking through Death: The Politics of the Corpse 2. Nicholas Terpstra, Body Politics: The Criminal Body between Public and 3. Private Sharon T. Strocchia, Women on the Edge: Madness, Possession, and 4. Suicide in Early Modern Convents 5. Stanley Chojnacki, The Patronage of the Body: Burial Sites, Identity, and 6. Gender in Fifteenth-Century Venice 7. John Jeffries Martin, Francesco Casoni and the Rhetorical Forensics of the Body 8. Romedio Schmitz-Esser, The Cursed and the Holy Body: Burning Corpses in the Middle Ages 9. Diana Bullen Presciutti, Domesticating Cannibalism: Visual Rhetorics of Madness and Maternal Infanticide in Fifteenth-Century Italy 10. Michael Cornett, New Books across the Disciplines
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