Exploration of the emotionologies of several medieval, romance emotional communities through both fictional and non-fictional narratives. The contributors analyze texts from different linguistic traditions and different periods, but they all focus on women characters.

The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature; J.Rider Order, Anarchy and Emotion in the Old French Philomena ; K.G.Casebier  What Was She Thinking? Ysolt on the Edge; B.Grigoriu   Moral Posturing: Virtue in Christine de Pisan's Livre de Trois Vertus; S.C.Mitchell   Gesture, Emotion, and Humanity: Depictions of Mélusine in the Upton House Bearsted Fragments; T.Colwell   Is She Angry or Just Sad?  Grief and Sorrow in the Songs of the Trobairitz; H.Verhoosel   Between Concealment and Eloquence: The Idea of the Ideal Woman in Medieval Provençal Literature; J.Rudin   Spiritual and Biological Mothering in Berceo's Vida de Santa Oria ; E.C.Francomano  Writing as Resistance: Self and Survival in Leonor López de Córdoba and Teresa de Cartagena; V.Rivera-Cordero   Between Boccaccio and Chaucer:  The Limits of Female Interiority in the Knight's Tale ; J.Friedman   In Laura's Shadow: Casting Female Humanists as Petrarchan Beloveds in Quattrocento Letters; A.A.Feng

JEFF RIDER Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Medieval Studies at Wesleyan University, USA.

JAMIE FRIEDMAN Assistant Professor of English at Westmont College, USA.