Authority, Gender and Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern England / by Susan Broomhall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broomhall, Susan, Author.

Contributor:

Broomhall, Susan, editor.

Series:

Genders and Sexualities in History, 2730-9487

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--History--476-1492.

Europe.

History, Modern.

Great Britain--History.

Great Britain.

Social history.

Emotions.

History of Medieval Europe.

Modern History.

History of Britain and Ireland.

Social History.

Emotion.

Local Subjects:

History of Medieval Europe.

Modern History.

History of Britain and Ireland.

Social History.

Emotion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XVI, 229 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Introduction : authority, gender and emotions in late mdieval 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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137531162

1137531169