Andreea Marculescu is Lecturer in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma, USA. Charles-Louis Morand Métivier is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Vermont, USA.

• I: Introduction; Andreea Marculescu and Charles-Louis Morand Métivier.- II: Subverting Emotional Norms.-  Passionate Politics: Emotion and Identity Formation Among the Menu Peuple in Early Fifteenth-Century France; Emily J. Hutchison.- Pity as a Political Emotion in Early Modern Europe; Natalia Wawrzyniak.- Issuing from the great flame of this joy”: Louise of Savoy, Marguerite of Navarre and Emotional Intimacy; Tracy Adams.- Histories of Emotion and Power: Catherine de Medici’s Advice to her Sons; Susan Broomhall.-  III: Affective Encounters.- Emotional Contagion: Évrart de Conty and Compassion; Beatrice Delaurenti.- Love Conventional/Love Singular: Desire in Middle English Lyric; Sarah Kathryn Moore.- Internal Theatre and Emotional Scripts in French Jesuit Meditative Literature; Jennifer Hillman.- IV: Authoring Emotions.- Cruelty and Empathy in Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné’s Les Tragiques: The Gaze of and on the Reader; Kathleen Long.- Narrating a Massacre: the Writing of History and Emotions as Response to the Battle of Nicopolis (1396); Charles-Louis Morand Métivier.- ‘Doel’ in situ: The Contextual and Corporeal Landscape of Grief in La Chanson de Roland; Angela Warner.- Performing Chivalric Masculinity: Morality, Restraint, and Emotional Norms in the Libro del Cavallero Zifar; Kim Bergqvist.- V: Afterword; Stephanie Trigg.

Andreea Marculescu is Lecturer in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma, USA. Charles-Louis Morand Métivier is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Vermont, USA.

• I: Introduction; Andreea Marculescu and Charles-Louis Morand Métivier.- II: Subverting Emotional Norms.-  Passionate Politics: Emotion and Identity Formation Among the Menu Peuple in Early Fifteenth-Century France; Emily J. Hutchison.- Pity as a Political Emotion in Early Modern Europe; Natalia Wawrzyniak.- Issuing from the great flame of this joy”: Louise of Savoy, Marguerite of Navarre and Emotional Intimacy; Tracy Adams.- Histories of Emotion and Power: Catherine de Medici’s Advice to her Sons; Susan Broomhall.-  III: Affective Encounters.- Emotional Contagion: Évrart de Conty and Compassion; Beatrice Delaurenti.- Love Conventional/Love Singular: Desire in Middle English Lyric; Sarah Kathryn Moore.- Internal Theatre and Emotional Scripts in French Jesuit Meditative Literature; Jennifer Hillman.- IV: Authoring Emotions.- Cruelty and Empathy in Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné’s Les Tragiques: The Gaze of and on the Reader; Kathleen Long.- Narrating a Massacre: the Writing of History and Emotions as Response to the Battle of Nicopolis (1396); Charles-Louis Morand Métivier.- ‘Doel’ in situ: The Contextual and Corporeal Landscape of Grief in La Chanson de Roland; Angela Warner.- Performing Chivalric Masculinity: Morality, Restraint, and Emotional Norms in the Libro del Cavallero Zifar; Kim Bergqvist.- V: Afterword; Stephanie Trigg.

Andreea Marculescu is Lecturer in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Oklahoma, USA. Charles-Louis Morand Métivier is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Vermont, USA.

• I: Introduction; Andreea Marculescu and Charles-Louis Morand Métivier.- II: Subverting Emotional Norms.-  Passionate Politics: Emotion and Identity Formation Among the Menu Peuple in Early Fifteenth-Century France; Emily J. Hutchison.- Pity as a Political Emotion in Early Modern Europe; Natalia Wawrzyniak.- Issuing from the great flame of this joy”: Louise of Savoy, Marguerite of Navarre and Emotional Intimacy; Tracy Adams.- Histories of Emotion and Power: Catherine de Medici’s Advice to her Sons; Susan Broomhall.-  III: Affective Encounters.- Emotional Contagion: Évrart de Conty and Compassion; Beatrice Delaurenti.- Love Conventional/Love Singular: Desire in Middle English Lyric; Sarah Kathryn Moore.- Internal Theatre and Emotional Scripts in French Jesuit Meditative Literature; Jennifer Hillman.- IV: Authoring Emotions.- Cruelty and Empathy in Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné’s Les Tragiques: The Gaze of and on the Reader; Kathleen Long.- Narrating a Massacre: the Writing of History and Emotions as Response to the Battle of Nicopolis (1396); Charles-Louis Morand Métivier.- ‘Doel’ in situ: The Contextual and Corporeal Landscape of Grief in La Chanson de Roland; Angela Warner.- Performing Chivalric Masculinity: Morality, Restraint, and Emotional Norms in the Libro del Cavallero Zifar; Kim Bergqvist.- V: Afterword; Stephanie Trigg.