Hannah Skoda is Fellow and Tutor in medieval history at St John's College, Oxford. She is also keeper of the textiles and silver at the college.

• 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 FattoriSites 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

A collection of essays as chronologically and geographically wide-ranging as this could have easily gone off the rails, but the sharp focus on premodern nostalgia maintains a sense of order and continuity to the contributions.