Passion and Order Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes

Name: Passion and Order Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes
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ISBN: 9780801440625

ISBN-10: 0801440629

ISBN-13: 9780801440625

Edition: 2008

Authors: Carol Lansing

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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 understandings of emotionality. In Passion and Order, Carol Lansing explores a dramatic change in thinking and practice about emotional restraint. This shift was driven by politics and understood in terms of gender. Thirteenth-century court cases reveal that male elites were accustomed to mourning loudly and demonstratively at funerals. As many as a hundred men might gather in a town's streets and…

Book details

List price: $74.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 1/4/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 2.002
Language: English



List of Illustrations



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


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