Passion and Order
Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes
1st Edition
Published on 5. July 2018
264 pages
978-1-5017-3224-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
NY
United States
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
21 halftones
21 halftones
ISBN-13
978-1-5017-3224-9 (9781501732249)
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Cornell University Press
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LansingCarol:
Carol Lansing is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Carol Lansing is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Content
- Cover
- PASSION AND ORDER
- Title
- Copyright
- 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
