Unearthing a little-studied Reformation discourse of contentment, this book shows its surprising significance in Renaissance literature.

This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Though modern readers no longer believe in the four humors of Galenic naturalism—blood, choler, melancholy, and phlegm—early modern thought found in these b

Emotion in the Tudor Court is a transdisciplinary work that uses Renaissance and modern scientific models of emotion to analyze the literary cultures of Tudor-e

Explores how early modern Europeans responded to suffering and asks how they both described and practised compassion.