Research Catalog

Title

Authority, gender and emotions in late medieval and early modern England / edited by Susan Broomhall.

Publication

Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Additional Authors

Broomhall, Susan

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"--

Series Statement

Genders and sexualities in history

Uniform Title

Genders and sexualities in history.

Subject

• Authority > Social aspects > History. > Great Britain
• Emotions > Social aspects > Great Britain
• Social role > Great Britain > History
• Sex role > Great Britain > History
• Great Britain > History > Medieval period, 1066-1485

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

Call Number

JFD 15-2927

ISBN

• 9781137531155 (hardback : alkaline paper)
• 1137531150 (hardback : alkaline paper)

LCCN

2015012847

OCLC

903763374

Title

Authority, gender and emotions in late medieval and early modern England / edited by Susan Broomhall.

Publisher

Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Genders and sexualities in history

Genders and sexualities in history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Broomhall, Susan, author, editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 15-2927