Authority, gender and emotions in late medieval and early modern England /edited by Susan Broomhall.
- Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampsire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource.
- Genders and sexualities in history .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : Authority, Gender and Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern England / From letters to loyalty : Aline la Despenser and the meaning(s) of a noblewoman's correspondence in thirteenth-century England / The role of exempla in educating through emotion : the deadly sin of "lecherye" in Robert Mannyng's Handlyng Synne (1303-1317) / How to be "both" : bilingual and gendered emotions in late medieval English balade sequences / St Richard Scrope, the Devout Widow, and the Feast of Corpus Christi : exploring emotions, gender, and governance in early fifteenth-century York / Anxieties with political and social order in fifteenth-century England / Raising girls and boys : fear, awe and dread in the early modern household / Authority in the French church in later sixteenth-century London / "The Pattern of All Patience" : gender, agency, and emotions in embroidery and pattern books in early modern England / A subject for love in The Merry Wives of Windsor / Emotions, gender expectations and the social role of chancery, 1550-1650 / Susan Broomhall -- Kathleen Neal -- Anne M. Scott -- Stephanie Downes -- P. J. P. Goldberg -- Merridee L. Bailey -- Stephanie Tarbin -- Susan Broomhall -- Sarah Randles -- Diana Barnes -- Amanda L. Capern.
"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 --
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Authority--Social aspects--History.--Great Britain Emotions--Social aspects--Great Britain. Social role--History.--Great Britain Sex role--History.--Great Britain