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Passion and order : restraint of grief in the medieval Italian communes
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- Creator
- Carol Lansing
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008
- Physical Details
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- xi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780801440625, 0801440629, 9781501732249, 1501732242
- OCLC
- ocn154706639, on1042220213
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-239) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Mourning customs -- Italy, Northern -- History -- To 1500.
- Grief -- Political aspects -- Italy, Northern -- History -- To 1500.
- Emotions -- Political aspects -- Italy, Northern -- History -- To 1500.
- Burial laws -- Italy, Northern -- History -- To 1500.
- Italy -- Social life and customs -- To 1500.
- Italy -- History -- 1268-1492.