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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.

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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 Proven‡al 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

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"The final chapters of The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Literature thus remind us of the formidable obstacles that prevented medieval women from giving full voice to their ´inner life´ and of the necessity of volumes such as the present one. By looking beyond the surface of female representations, by re- examining well-known emotional portraits, or by highlighting lesser-known writers, this collection portrays the richness, variety, and complexity of women´s emotions in medieval literature.

The volume´s careful attention to nuances of emotional state, to subtle shifts in feelings or perspectives, and to repressed feminine identities maps out a dynamic emotionology worthy of a closer look . . . productive and illuminating." - The Medieval Review

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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.

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