Grief, Gender, and Identity in the Middle Ages

Lee Templeton (Ph.D., 2006) is Associate Professor of English at North Carolina Wesleyan College. His work has appeared in Medieval Perspectives and The Ballad of the Lone Medievalist, and he is the co-editor of New Directions in Medieval Mystical and Devotional Literature: Essays in Honor of Denise N. Baker.

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Introduction: Grief, Gender, Identity

 Lee Templeton



1 “Era Omne De Grant Coraçón

  Gendered Grief, Sorrow, and Zeal in Medieval Castilian History Writing

 Kim Bergqvist



2 Maternal Lament and Misremembering in Dispute between Mary and the Cross

 Kisha G. Tracy



3 Forbidding Feminine Grief: Affective Exploitation in the Brome Sacrifice of Isaac

 Jeffery G. Stoyanoff



4 Permanent Grief: Time and the Production of Sainthood in the Old English Life of Euphrosyne

 Erin I. Mann



5 Grief, Gender, and the Birth of Lyric in Old Norse Poetry

 Inna Matyushina



6 Gender and Death from Grief in Medieval Scandinavian Texts

 Kristen Mills



7 “The Noble Way You Blushed”

  Queering Mourning Verse in the Ulster Cycle

 Marjorie Housley



8 “… agus ag ól a ḟola”

  Ingesting Blood and Engendering Lament in Medieval Irish Literature

 Danielle Marie Cudmore



9 “Sorow wil meng a mans blode and make him for-to wax wode”

  Representations of Male and Female Grief-Madness in Middle English Arthurian Romance

 Drew Maxwell



10 Transformative Tears: Grief and Masculine Identity in Sir Orfeo

 Lee Templeton



11 Feeling it Like a Man: Masculine Grief in Medieval and Early Modern Texts

 Jim Casey



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