Megan Moore is Associate Professor of French at the University of Missouri. She is author of Exchanges in Exoticism. Follow her on X @lagourmande.

A welcome addition to histories of emotion, to medieval Mediterranean studies, work on gender, desire and sexuality, as well as work on medieval communities and biopolitics.(H-France Forum) Megan Moore proposes a fascinating analysis of grief through this book, which can be considered as a new piece in the ever more complete and complex puzzle of the medieval history of emotions... Moore's book is brilliant, thoughtful, and pleasant to read.(Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies)

• Introduction: Desire and Death in Elite Medieval Emotional Communities1. Philomena and the Erotics of Privilege in the Middle Ages2. Widows and the Romance of Grief3. Masculinity, Mourning, and Epic Sacrifice4. Toward a Mediterranean Erotics of GriefConclusion: The Erotics of Grief and the Stakes of Community

Megan Moore is Associate Professor of French at the University of Missouri. She is author of Exchanges in Exoticism. Follow her on X @lagourmande.

A welcome addition to histories of emotion, to medieval Mediterranean studies, work on gender, desire and sexuality, as well as work on medieval communities and biopolitics.(H-France Forum) Megan Moore proposes a fascinating analysis of grief through this book, which can be considered as a new piece in the ever more complete and complex puzzle of the medieval history of emotions... Moore's book is brilliant, thoughtful, and pleasant to read.(Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies)

• Introduction: Desire and Death in Elite Medieval Emotional Communities1. Philomena and the Erotics of Privilege in the Middle Ages2. Widows and the Romance of Grief3. Masculinity, Mourning, and Epic Sacrifice4. Toward a Mediterranean Erotics of GriefConclusion: The Erotics of Grief and the Stakes of Community

Megan Moore is Associate Professor of French at the University of Missouri. She is author of Exchanges in Exoticism. Follow her on X @lagourmande.

A welcome addition to histories of emotion, to medieval Mediterranean studies, work on gender, desire and sexuality, as well as work on medieval communities and biopolitics.(H-France Forum) Megan Moore proposes a fascinating analysis of grief through this book, which can be considered as a new piece in the ever more complete and complex puzzle of the medieval history of emotions... Moore's book is brilliant, thoughtful, and pleasant to read.(Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies)

• Introduction: Desire and Death in Elite Medieval Emotional Communities1. Philomena and the Erotics of Privilege in the Middle Ages2. Widows and the Romance of Grief3. Masculinity, Mourning, and Epic Sacrifice4. Toward a Mediterranean Erotics of GriefConclusion: The Erotics of Grief and the Stakes of Community