This collection asks new questions about the household, examining the kinds of positive and negative emotional scope available to household members drawn together by shared economic, social and biological needs rather than by blood ties.Emotions in the Household; S.Broomhall Bonds of Affection between Children and Their Foster-Parents in Early Icelandic Society; A.Hansen Love Thy Chambermaid: Emotional and Physical Violence against the Servant in Les Cent Nouvelles nouvelles ; T.Bibring Humanist Educational and Emotional Expectations from Teenagers in Late Fifteenth-Century Italy; R.Chavasse Humour and Household Relationships: Servants in Late Medieval and Sixteenth-century French Farce; S.Gordon Fostering Girls in Early Modern France; T.Adams 'Whether your Ladiship will or ne': Displeasure, duty and devotion in The Lisle Letters ; C.Mann 'Good friendship' in the Household: Illicit sexuality, Emotions and Women's Relationships in Late Sixteenth-century England; S.Tarbin Resentment and Rebellion in the Scholarly Household: Son and Amanuensis in the Godefroy Family; C.R.Sherman Suspicion, Rivalry and Care: Mistresses and Maidservants in Early Modern Stockholm; M.Lamberg 'A share of sorrows': Death in the Early Modern English Household; A.Brady Servants' Social Networks and Relationships in Eighteenth-Century Turku and Odense; K.Ojala 'Creating a Life together': Utopian Households in the Work of Sarah Scott and Sarah Fielding; N.Pohl 'I was born in this palace': Emotional Bonds in the Artistic Community of the Louvre (1750-1800); E.Philippe & S.Sofio The Social World of a Dutch Boy: The Diary of Otto van Eck (1791-1796); A.Baggerman & R.Dekker Fictive Kinship: Wards and Foster Parents in Nineteenth-century France; I.JablonkaTRACY ADAMS Senior Lecturer in French, University of Auckland, New ZealandARIANNE BAGGERMAN Faculty of History and Arts, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The NetherlandsTOVI BIBRING PhD Candidate, French Department, Bar-Ilan University, IsraelAl£J