Death and Dying in the Middle Ages Tapa dura - 1999

The Editors: Edelgard E. DuBruck, who received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, is Professor Emerita of French and Humanities at Marygrove College in Detroit, Michigan. She was the recipient of the Michigan Academy Award and was invited to lecture in England, Germany, and at the Sorbonne. She founded and edited Fifteenth-Century Studies (volumes 1 through 23) and organized three international congresses in Europe. Among her publications are The Theme of Death in French Poetry of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, a critical edition of the Passion Isabeau (1983) (Peter Lang, 1990), and Aspects of Fifteenth-Century Society in the German Carnival Comedies, as well as many articles and book reviews.
Barbara I. Gusick is Assistant Professor of English at Troy State University (Dothan). She received her Ph.D. from Loyola University Chicago and has published essays on medieval drama and presented papers on death and dying at international conferences, including the Fifteenth-Century Congress held in Salzburg, Austria, and the International Medieval congresses in Leeds, United Kingdom.