Table of Contents

Contents: Widow's peek: Looking at ritual and representation, Allison Levy; Representing widowhood: mourning models: 'Widowhood was the time of her greatest perfection': Ideals of widowhood and sanctity in Florentine art, Catherine Lawless; Memento Mori: Death, widowhood and remembering in early modern England, J. S. W. Helt; Mourning widows: Portraits of widows and widowhood in funeral sermons from Brunswick-Wolfenbuettel, Marina Arnold; Re-presenting widowhood: fashionable choices: Casting her widowhood: Contemporary and posthumous portraits of Caterina Sforza, Joyce de Vries; A widow's tears, a Queen's ambition: The variable history of Marie de Médicis's bereavement; Elizabeth McCartney; Conceptualizing the Kaiserinwitwe: Empress Maria Theresia and her portraits, Michael E. Yonan; Widowhood and representation: building memories: Individual fame and family honor: The tomb of Dogaressa Agnese da Mosto Venier, Holly S. Hurlburt; Margaret of Austria and the encoding of power in patronage: The Funerary Foundation at Brou, Laura D. Gelfand; A widow building in Elizabethan England: Bess of Hardwick at Hardwick Hall, Sara French; Constructing convents in 16th-century Castile: Toledan widows and patterns of patronage, Stephanie Fink De Backer; Widowhood and re-presentation: constructing histories: Trecento Rome: The poetics and politics of widowhood, Cristelle L. Baskins; Framing widows: Mourning, gender and portraiture in early modern Florence, Allison Levy; Contested narratives: Elisabeth of Austria and a relic of St Leopold, Amelia Carr; Afterword: Last rites: mourning identities (?), Allison Levy; Index.