This collection investigates the social and cultural factors that shaped the representation of women s emotions in the medieval and early modern periods and explores the consequences of this representation for women s participation in public and private life. The essays focus on emotions such as sorrow, joy, love, anger, and shame as depicted in a range of texts, including devotional literature, drama, chanson de geste, lyric, theological treatises, and legal texts. As a central component of human behavior and social interaction, emotion is a fundamental catagory of analysis for understanding...