This collection explores how situations of authority, governance, and influence were practised through both gender ideologies and affective performances in late medieval and early modern England.

Autorentext
Kathleen Neal, Monash University, Australia
Anne M. Scott, University of Western Australia, Australia
Stephanie Downes, University of Melbourne, Australia
P. J. P. Goldberg, University of York, UK
Merridee L. Bailey, University of Adelaide, Australia
Stephanie Tarbin, University of Western Australia, Australia
Sarah Randles, University of Melbourne, Australia
Diana Barnes, University of Queensland, Australia
Amanda L. Capern, University of Hull, UK

Zusammenfassung
"This ground-breaking collection brings together a series of fine essays which explore the interchange between emotions, authority and influence, especially in a gendered context, in late medieval and early modern England. It will be compulsory reading for students and scholars who want to start exploring this fascinating new field." - Christopher Fletcher, CNRS-University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), France

Inhalt
Introduction: Authority, Gender and Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern England; Susan Broomhall

1. From Letters to Loyalty: Aline la Despenser and the Meaning(s) of a Noblewoman ' 's Correspondence in Thirteenth-Century England; Kathleen Neal
2. The Role of Exempla in Educating through Emotion: The Deadly Sin of ' 'Lecherye ' ' in Robert Mannyng ' 's Handlyng Synne (1303-1317); Anne M. Scott
3. How to be ' 'Both ' ': Bilingual and Gendered Emotions in Late Medieval English Balade Sequences; Stephanie Downes
4. St Richard Scrope, the Devout Widow, and the Feast of Corpus Christi: Exploring Emotions, Gender, and Governance in Early Fifteenth-Century York; P. J. P. Goldberg
5. Anxieties with Political and Social Order in Fifteenth-Century England; Merridee L. Bailey
6. Raising Girls and Boys: Fear, Awe and Dread in the Early Modern Household; Stephanie Tarbin
7. Authority in the French Church in Later Sixteenth-Century London; Susan Broomhall
8. ' 'The Pattern of All Patience ' ': Gender, Agency, and Emotions in Embroidery and Pattern Books in Early Modern England; Sarah Randles
9. A Subject for Love in The Merry Wives of Windsor; Diana Barnes
10. Emotions, Gender Expectations and the Social Role of Chancery, 1550-1650; Amanda L. Capern