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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Tác giả chính: Lansing, Carol, 1951-
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Ithaca : Cornell University Press 2008.
Loạt:Conjunctions of religion & power in the medieval past.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv2n7mzm
Mục lục:
  • 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.