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050 00 $aGT3390.5.I8$bL36 2008
082 00 $a393/.909450902$222
100 1 $aLansing, Carol,$d1951-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91012217
245 10 $aPassion and order :$brestraint of grief in the medieval Italian communes /$cCarol Lansing.
260 $aIthaca :$bCornell University Press,$c2008.
300 $axi, 244 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aConjunctions of religion and power in the medieval past
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 225-239) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tGrief and State Formation -- $g2.$tFunerals and Funeral Laws -- $g3.$tLaments and Male Honor -- $g4.$tAncient Laments: Sexuality, Rage, and Doubt -- $g5.$tIntercession for the Dead and Sorrow for Sin -- $g6.$tLay Political Culture and Critiques of the Lament -- $g7.$tEmotional Order and Just Order -- $g8.$tThe Seductive Dangers of Grief -- $g9.$tWars and Funerals in Fourteenth-Century Orvieto -- $tEpilogue: The Politics of Grief.
520 1 $a"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 squares to weep and cry out, even tear at their beards and clothing. Yet these elites enacted laws against such emotional display and proceeded to pay the fines levied against themselves for violating their own legislation." "Political theorists used gender norms to urge men to restrain their passions; histrionic grieving, like lust, was now considered "womanish." Lawmakers drew on a complex of gendered ideas about grief and public order to characterize governance in ways that linked the self and the state. They articulated their beliefs in terms of rules of decorum, how men and women need to behave in order to live together in society. Lansing demonstrates this change through a rich combination of sources: archival records from Orvieto, Bologna, and Perugia; political treatises; literary works, notably Petrarch's letters; and representations of grief in painting and sculpture."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aMourning customs$zItaly, Northern$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aGrief$xPolitical aspects$zItaly, Northern$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aEmotions$xPolitical aspects$zItaly, Northern$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aBurial laws$zItaly, Northern$xHistory$yTo 1500.
651 0 $aItaly$xSocial life and customs$yTo 1500.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98006194
651 0 $aItaly$xHistory$y1268-1492.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068947
830 0 $aConjunctions of religion & power in the medieval past.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00000270
852 00 $bglx$hGT3390.5.I8$iL36 2008