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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819266103321

Autore

Broomhall Susan

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-137-53116-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 229 p.)

Collana

Genders and Sexualities in History, , 2730-9479

Classificazione

HIS015000HIS037010HIS054000

Disciplina

305.30942/09024

Soggetti

Europe—History—476-1492

History, Modern

Great Britain—History

Social history

Emotions

History of Medieval Europe

Modern History

History of Britain and Ireland

Social History

Emotion

Great Britain History Medieval period, 1066-1485

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.