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

by Megan Moore

The Erotics of Grief considers how emotions propagate power by exploring whose lives are grieved and what kinds of grief are valuable within and eroticized by medieval narratives. Megan Moore argues that grief is not only routinely eroticized in medieval literature but that it is a foundational emotion of medieval elite culture.

Focusing on the concept of grief as desire, Moore builds on the history of the emotions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150175839X
• ISBN13: 9781501758393
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"