Carol Lansing is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

"If Carol Lansing is not already the leading Anglo-American historian of the Italian High Middle Ages, her Passion and Order: Restraint of Grief in the Italian Communes emphatically establishes her in that position. Lansing in a tour de force synthesizes vast bodies of ancient and medieval research on such varied subjects as medieval theology, painting, philosophy, consolatory literature, romances, Petrarch, and gender studies. In the end, Lansing examines the role of these changes in laws on grief in the formation of the Renaissance territorial state. This book provides the occasion for non-specialists to discover the best of contemporary reflection on medieval history and its place in Western history. It is also a pleasure to read."

Carol Lansing is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

"If Carol Lansing is not already the leading Anglo-American historian of the Italian High Middle Ages, her Passion and Order: Restraint of Grief in the Italian Communes emphatically establishes her in that position. Lansing in a tour de force synthesizes vast bodies of ancient and medieval research on such varied subjects as medieval theology, painting, philosophy, consolatory literature, romances, Petrarch, and gender studies. In the end, Lansing examines the role of these changes in laws on grief in the formation of the Renaissance territorial state. This book provides the occasion for non-specialists to discover the best of contemporary reflection on medieval history and its place in Western history. It is also a pleasure to read."

Carol Lansing is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

"If Carol Lansing is not already the leading Anglo-American historian of the Italian High Middle Ages, her Passion and Order: Restraint of Grief in the Italian Communes emphatically establishes her in that position. Lansing in a tour de force synthesizes vast bodies of ancient and medieval research on such varied subjects as medieval theology, painting, philosophy, consolatory literature, romances, Petrarch, and gender studies. In the end, Lansing examines the role of these changes in laws on grief in the formation of the Renaissance territorial state. This book provides the occasion for non-specialists to discover the best of contemporary reflection on medieval history and its place in Western history. It is also a pleasure to read."