Chapter 1 Introduction: Authority, Gender, and Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

Chapter 2 From Letters to Loyalty: Aline la Despenser and the Meaning(s) of a Noblewoman’s Correspondence in Thirteenth-Century England

Chapter 3 The Role of Exempla in Educating through Emotion: The Deadly Sin of ‘lecherye’ in Robert Mannyng’s Handlyng Synne (1303—1317)

Chapter 4 How to be ‘Both’: Bilingual and Gendered Emotions in Late Medieval English Balade Sequences

Chapter 5 St Richard Scrope, the Devout Widow, and the Feast of Corpus Christi: Exploring Emotions, Gender, and Governance in Early Fifteenth-Century York

Chapter 7 Raising Girls and Boys: Fear, Awe, and Dread in the Early Modern Household

Chapter 8 Authority in the French Church in Later Sixteenth-Century London

Chapter 9 ‘The Pattern of All Patience’: Gender, Agency, and Emotions in Embroidery and Pattern Books in Early Modern England

Chapter 10 A Subject for Love in The Merry Wives of Windsor

Chapter 11 Emotions, Gender Expectations, and the Social Role of Chancery, 1550–1650