The Mat(t)er of Death: The Defense of Eve and the Female Ars Moriendi

Phillippy, Patricia

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“…In addition to fulfilling the necessary emotional rites, women were responsible for caring for the dying, donning mourning clothes in the appropriate fashion, and even washing and winding the corpse. 6 Notwithstanding our desire to recover a female Hamlet, then, we must keep in view the worldly conditions which made early modern women's sorrow more materially quantifiable than that of homo melancholicus.…”

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Monumental Female Melancholy in John Webster and Hester Pulter

Rayner¹

2020

SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

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Monumental Female Melancholy in John Webster and Hester Pulter

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2020

SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900

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“…13 13 See Phillippy's discussion of Mortalities Memorandum , which considers Eve as a figure of both life and of death in the ars moriendi tradition. …”

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Serpentine Eve: Milton and the Seventeenth‐Century Debate Over Women

Miller

2008

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Verse Epitaphs and the Memorialisation of Women in Reformation England

Hyde

2016

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During the late twentieth century, scholars became interested in the ways in which early modern England adapted to the Reformation and how change was represented in popular culture. In the last fifteen years, there has been a particular focus on how Protestantism affected the relationship between the living and the dead. In 2000, for example, Ralph Houlbrooke's study Death, Religion, and the Family in England, 1480–1750 identified a failure on the part of the post‐Reformation church to replace old funerary customs with new, yet two years later in Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England, Peter Marshall argued persuasively that the Reformation engendered a ‘cultural transformation’ in the understanding of both death and the dead. By , Scott Newstok's Quoting Death in Early Modern England described a paradox in which a Protestant nation that scorned Catholic death rituals became engrossed in commemorating its own dead through poetic memorialisation. This article surveys 21st century historiographical debates in order to contextualise women's verse epitaphs during the sixteenth century. In particular, it looks to the broadside literature that was the epitome of cheap print as a means of reflecting popular religious attitudes. It shows how several verse epitaphs of prominent women in Tudor society, such as William Elderton's A proper new balad in praise of my ladie marques (), highlight issues of continuity and change in religious beliefs surrounding the memorialisation of pious women and the role of the supernatural. Video abstract (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyzjk8AaCP8)

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The Mat(t)er of Death: The Defense of Eve and the Female Ars Moriendi

Cited by 3 publications

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Monumental Female Melancholy in John Webster and Hester Pulter

Monumental Female Melancholy in John Webster and Hester Pulter

Serpentine Eve: Milton and the Seventeenth‐Century Debate Over Women

Verse Epitaphs and the Memorialisation of Women in Reformation England

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