Title The erotics of grief : emotions and the construction of privilege in the medieval Mediterranean / Megan Moore

Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (x, 189 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction : Desire & Death in Elite Medieval Emotional Communities -- Philomena and the Erotics of Privilege in the Middle Ages -- Widows and the Romance of Grief -- Masculinity, Mourning, and Epic Sacrifice -- Towards a Mediterranean Erotics of Grief Summary "This book considers how emotions propagate power by exploring whose lives are grievable and what kinds of grief are valuable within and eroticized by medieval narratives. Incorporating literary, visual, and codicological evidence in sources from across the Mediterranean, The Erotics of Grief reads the performance of grief as one of community and remembrance, to answer why some lives are imagined to matter more than others, and to explore how a language of grief becomes a common language of status among the medieval Mediterranean elite"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 25, 2021) Subject Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism. Literature, Medieval -- Themes, motives Grief in literature. Eroticism in literature. Grief -- Social aspects -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500 Elite (Social sciences) -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500 LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval Elite (Social sciences) Eroticism in literature Grief in literature Grief -- Social aspects Literature, Medieval Literature, Medieval -- Themes, motives Mediterranean Region Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Literary criticism Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book LC no. 2021006163 ISBN 1501758411 9781501758409 1501758403 9781501758416

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