This project revises our ideas of medieval and early modern merchant practices, showing that emotions and morality were at the core of economic activity.
‘Moral Emotions in Mercantilism in Late Medieval and Early Modern England, c.1450‒1650' investigates emotional discourses surrounding merchant practices in London over the late medieval and early modern period, c.1450‒1650. Drawing on an array of archival materials, from court records to popular printed didactic texts, Merridee Baily is examining the central role of emotions and morality in London merchant activities and the ways in which moral emotions, vices and emotional expressions of good economic conduct were represented. In addition, her research investigates the language of emotions in legal and literary texts.
Publications
Edited Books
Bailey, M. L., T. M. Colwell and J. Hotchin. Women and Work in Premodern Europe: Experiences, Relationships and Cultural Representation, c.1100–1800. London: Routledge, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-4724-8832-9.
Bailey, Merridee L. and K. Barclay, eds. Emotion, Ritual and Power in Europe, 1200‒1920: Family, State and Church. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edited Journal Issue
Bailey, M. L. and K.-J. Knight, eds. ‘The History of Law and Emotions’. Special issue, The Journal of Legal History 38.2 (2017). ISSN: 0144-0365 (Print); 1744-0564 (Online).
Journal Articles
Bailey, Merridee L. and Kimberley-Joy Knight. ‘Writing Histories of Law and Emotion’. The Journal of Legal History 38.2 (2017): 117‒129.
Bailey, Merridee L. (2014) ‘Old Age and Economic Practices: Court of Chancery Cases Involving Richard Pynson, King's Printer'. Journal of the Early Book Society 17 (2014): 307‒15.
Book Chapters
Bailey, M. L., T. M. Colwell and J. Hotchin. ‘Approaching Women and Work in Premodern Europe’. In Women and Work in Premodern Europe: Experiences, Relationships and Cultural Representation, c.1100‒1800, edited by M. L. Bailey, T. M. Colwell and J. Hotchin. London: Routledge, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-4724-8832-9.
Bailey, M. L. and K. Barclay. ‘Emotion, Ritual and Power: From Family to Nation’. In Emotion, Ritual and Power in Europe, 1200‒1920: Family, State and Church, edited by M. L. Bailey and K. Barclay, pp. 1‒20. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Bailey, Merridee L. ‘Economic records'. In Early Modern Emotions: An Introduction, edited by Susan Broomhall, pp. 108‒12. London, Routledge, 2017.
Bailey, Merridee L. ‘Shaping London Merchant Identities: Emotions, Reputation and Power in the Court of Chancery’. In The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience, edited by D. Simonton, pp. 327‒37. London: Routledge, 2017.
