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Title Authority, gender and emotions in late medieval and early modern England / edited by Susan Broomhall
Published Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampsire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

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Series Genders and sexualities in history
Genders and sexualities in history.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Authority -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History
Emotions -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
Social role -- Great Britain -- History
Sex role -- Great Britain -- History
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
HISTORY -- Medieval.
HISTORY -- Social History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Authority -- Social aspects
Emotions -- Social aspects
Sex role
Social role
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056740
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Broomhall, Susan, author, editor.
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