This collection explores how situations of authority, governance, and influence were practised through both gender ideologies and affective performances in medi
States of emotion were vital as a foundation to society in the premodern period, employed as a force of order to structure diplomatic transactions, shape dynast
This project is an attempt to challenge the canonical gender concept while trying to specify what gender was in the medieval and early modern world. Despite the
The period 1300-1600 CE was one of intense and far-reaching emotional realignments in European culture. New desires and developments in politics, religion, phil
This collection argues that gender must be considered as both an approach to history, and as a reflection of the deep workings of the lived, historical past. Th