Authority, Gender and Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern England.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (246 pages)
- Genders and Sexualities in History Series .
- Genders and Sexualities in History Series .
Cover -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Authority, Gender, and Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern England -- 1 From Letters to Loyalty: Aline la Despenser and the Meaning(s) of a Noblewoman's Correspondence in Thirteenth-Century England -- 2 The Role of Exempla in Educating through Emotion: The Deadly Sin of 'lecherye' in Robert Mannyng's Handlyng Synne ( 1303-1317) -- 3 How to be 'Both': Bilingual and Gendered Emotions in Late Medieval English Balade Sequences -- 4 St Richard Scrope, the Devout Widow, and the Feast of Corpus Christi: Exploring Emotions, Gender, and Governance in Early Fifteenth-Century York -- 5 Anxieties with Political and Social Order in Fifteenth-Century England -- 6 Raising Girls and Boys: Fear, Awe, and Dread in the Early Modern Household -- 7 Authority in the French Church in Later Sixteenth-Century London -- 8 'The Pattern of All Patience': Gender, Agency, and Emotions in Embroidery and Pattern Books in Early Modern England -- 9 A Subject for Love in The Merry Wives of Windsor -- 10 Emotions, Gender Expectations, and the Social Role of Chancery, 1550-1650 -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
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.