Passion and order : restraint of grief in the medieval Italian communes /
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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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press
2008.
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| Series: | Conjunctions of religion & power in the medieval past.
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| Acceso en liña: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv2n7mzm |
Table of Contents:
- Grief and state formation
- Funerals and funeral laws
- Laments and male honor
- Ancient laments : sexuality, rage, and doubt
- Intercession for the dead and sorrow for sin
- Lay political culture and critiques of the lament
- Emotional order and just order
- The seductive dangers of grief
- Wars and funerals in fourteenth-century Orvieto
- Epilogue : the politics of grief.