How can the concept of nostalgia illuminate the culturally specific ways in which societies understand the contested relationship between the past, present, and future?

Edited by Harriet Lyon and Alexandra Walsham

Introduction: Early Modern Nostalgia: Memory, Temporality, and Emotion - Harriet Lyon and Alexandra Walsham

Rhetorics of Nostalgia

Pastoral Nostalgia in the Long Fourteenth Century - Hannah Skoda

'That Antwerp's Golden Age may return one day': Nostalgia as a Rhetorical Device in the Schoolbooks of a Sixteenth-Century Schoolmaster in Exile - Alisa van de Haar and Theo Lap

Figures of Nostalgia

Good King Harry? Nostalgia for Henry VIII in Early Modern England - Harriet Lyon

Remembering Lot's Wife: The Sin of Nostalgia in the English Atlantic World - Alexandra Walsham

Communities of Nostalgia

Exiles from England or an England in Exile? Nostalgia, Temporality and Catholic Émigrés from Tudor England - Frederick Smith

Memory, Nostalgia, and the Formation of a Greek Migrant Community - Niccolò Fattori
Sites of Nostalgia

'This instrument is still there, but no longer functions': Chorography, Nostalgia, and Politics in the Aftermath of the Eighty Years' War - Raingard Esser

Family and Nostalgia in the Early Modern Iberian World - Antonio Urquízar-Herrera and Enrique Soria Mesa

Sounds of Nostalgia
Sung Farewells: Listening for Nostalgia's Futures in the Long Fifteenth Century - Matthew S. Champion

'When this Old Hat was New': Ballads, Nostalgia and Social Change in Early Modern England' - Andy Wood