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The Erotics of Grief: Emotions and the Construction of Privilege in the Medieval Mediterranean

✍ Scribed by Megan Moore

Publisher: Cornell University Press
Year: 2021
Tongue: English
Leaves: 201
Category: Library

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In her reading of the performance of grief as a performance of community and remembrance, Moore assesses why some lives are imagined as mattering more than others and explores how a language of grief becomes a common language of status among the medieval Mediterranean elite.

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