The Erotics of Grief : : Emotions and the Construction of Privilege in the Medieval Mediterranean / / Megan Moore.
The Erotics of Grief considers how emotions propagate power by exploring whose lives are grieved and what kinds of grief are valuable within and eroticized by medieval narratives. Megan Moore argues that grief is not only routinely eroticized in medieval literature but that it is a foundational emot...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (204 p.) :; 5 b&w halftones, 2 charts |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Desire and Death in Elite Medieval Emotional Communities
- Chapter 1. Philomena and the Erotics of Privilege in the Middle Ages
- Chapter 2. Widows and the Romance of Grief
- Chapter 3. Masculinity, Mourning, and Epic Sacrifice
- Chapter 4. Toward a Mediterranean Erotics of Grief
- Conclusion: The Erotics of Grief and the Stakes of Community
- Appendix 1: Selected Illuminations of Knights Being Grieved
- Appendix 2. Selected Illuminations of Lovers in Death
- Bibliography
- Index