Passion and Order Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes |
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| Author:
| Lansing, Carol |
| Series title: | Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8014-4062-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2008 |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $74.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
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...