Early Modern Bonds of Trust

Joseph Sterrett, Associate Professor of English Literature, Aarhus University, Denmark. Alison Findlay, Professor of Renaissance Drama, Lancaster University, UK.Helen Wilcox, Professor Emerita of English Literature, Bangor University, Wales, UK.

• Introduction by Joseph Sterrett (Aarhus University, Denmark), Alison Findlay (Lancaster University, UK), and Helen Wilcox (Bangor University, UK)Part I: Intimate Trust 1. ‘I lie with her and she with me': Shakespeare’s Sonnets and the Pleasures of Seeming TrustMichael Durrant (University of London, UK)2. Shades of Theological Trust: Calvin, Donne and HerbertJoseph Sterrett (Aarhus University, Denmark)3. Falling into Temptation: Risking Vulnerability in Hero and Leander and Paradise LostRachel Willie (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)Part II: Early Modern Communal Trust 4. Trust and Risk in The Merry Wives of WindsorAlison Findlay (Lancaster University, UK)5. A “Breathless Flight” of Faith: Communities of Trust in Robert Southwell’s PoetryChloe Preedy (University of Exeter, UK)6. On the Line: Religious Controversy and Trust in Early Modern English LiteratureHelen Wilcox (Bangor University, UK)7. “This I make my testmt”: Trust and Risk in the Wills of Three Early Modern WomenVicki Kay Price (Bangor University)Part III: Credit and Risk in Early Modern Institutions 8. Trust and Risk in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of VeniceLine Cotegnies (Sorbonne University, France)9. Taking Note and the Technologies of Trust in Ben Jonson’s VolponeAngus Vine (University of Stirling, UK)10. Trust, Risk, and Credit in The Winter’s TaleRita Banerjee, The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, India11. Trust and Risk: The CorporationLiam Haydon, Head of Strategy for the Natural Environment Research Council, UK14. Romance and the Spirit of Trust: Narratives of Forswearing in Chrétien, Shakespeare and MozartLaura Hatch (Brigham Young University, USA) and Julia Reinhard Lupton (The University of California, Irvine, USA)