 | Passion and Order: Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes 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; I; 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... Carol Lansing is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. |
