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Authority, gender and emotions in late medieval and early modern England
Title
Authority, gender and emotions in late medieval and early modern England / edited by Susan Broomhall.
ISBN
9781137531155 (hardback : alkaline paper)
1137531150 (hardback : alkaline paper)
Publication
Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Physical Description
xvi, 229 pages ; 23 cm.
Summary
"This collection explores how situations of authority, governance, and influence were practised through both gender ideologies and affective performances in medieval and early modern England. Authority is inherently relational -- it must be asserted over someone who allows or is forced to accept this dominance. The capacity to exercise authority is therefore a social and cultural act, one that is shaped by social identities such as gender and by social practices that include emotions. The contributions in this volume, exploring case studies of women and men's letter-writing, political and ecclesiastical governance, household rule, exercise of law and order, and creative agency, investigate how gender and emotions shaped the ways different individuals could assert or maintain authority, or indeed disrupt or provide alternatives to conventional practices of authority"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 09, 2015
Series
Genders and sexualities in history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : Authority, Gender and Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern England / Susan Broomhall
From letters to loyalty : Aline la Despenser and the meaning(s) of a noblewoman's correspondence in thirteenth-century England / Kathleen Neal
The role of exempla in educating through emotion : the deadly sin of "lecherye" in Robert Mannyng's Handlyng Synne (1303-1317) / Anne M. Scott
How to be "both" : bilingual and gendered emotions in late medieval English balade sequences / Stephanie Downes
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
Anxieties with political and social order in fifteenth-century England / Merridee L. Bailey
Raising girls and boys : fear, awe and dread in the early modern household / Stephanie Tarbin
Authority in the French church in later sixteenth-century London / Susan Broomhall
"The Pattern of All Patience" : gender, agency, and emotions in embroidery and pattern books in early modern England / Sarah Randles
A subject for love in The Merry Wives of Windsor / Diana Barnes
Emotions, gender expectations and the social role of chancery, 1550-1650 / Amanda L. Capern.
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