Passion and Order : : Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes / / Carol Lansing.
The way in which a society expresses grief can reveal how it views both intense emotions and public order. In thirteenth-century Italian communes, a conscious effort to change appropriate public reaction to death threw into sharp relief connections among urban politics, gender expectations, and unde...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 21 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Grief and State Formation
- 2. Funerals and Funeral Laws
- 3. Laments and Male Honor
- 4. Ancient Laments: Sexuality, Rage, and Doubt
- 5. Intercession for the Dead and Sorrow for Sin
- 6. Lay Political Culture and Critiques of the Lament
- 7. Emotional Order and Just Order
- 8. The Seductive Dangers of Grief
- 9. Wars and Funerals in Fourteenth-Century Orvieto
- Epilogue: The Politics of Grief
- Bibliography
- Index