Passion and Order (Hardback)
Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communities
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Pages: 244
Illustrations: b/w illus
ISBN: 9780801440625
Published: 31st December 2008
Casemate UK Academic
Pages: 244
Illustrations: b/w illus
ISBN: 9780801440625
Published: 31st December 2008
Casemate UK Academic
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A fascinating cultural history, this book looks at a period of great change in perceptions of grief in thirteenth century Italy. At around this time the governments of the city states started intervening in funerary arrangements, passing laws to curb the public display of grief. These laws were actually enforced, and bizarrely it seems to be the elites of the governing classes which were most affected. These laws also mark the start of the concept that it is unmanly to cry. Carol Lansing argues that as the well-being of the state came to be associated with orderly behaviour public displays of grief became seen as disorderly and were associated increasingly with women.
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