Introduction by Joseph Sterrett (Aarhus University, Denmark) , Alison Findlay (Lancaster University, UK) , and Helen Wilcox (Bangor University, UK) Part I: Intimate Trust 1. 'I lie with her and she with me': Shakespeare's Sonnets and the Pleasures of Seeming Trust Michael Durrant (University of London, UK) 2. Shades of Theological Trust: Calvin, Donne and Herbert Joseph Sterrett (Aarhus University, Denmark) 3. Falling into Temptation: Risking Vulnerability in Hero and Leander and Paradise Lost Rachel Willie (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) Part II: Early Modern Communal Trust 4. Trust and Risk in The Merry Wives of Windsor Alison Findlay (Lancaster University, UK) 5. A "Breathless Flight" of Faith: Communities of Trust in Robert Southwell's Poetry Chloe Preedy (University of Exeter, UK) 6. On the Line: Religious Controversy and Trust in Early Modern English Literature Helen Wilcox (Bangor University, UK) 7. "This I make my testmt": Trust and Risk in the Wills of Three Early Modern Women Vicki Kay Price (Bangor University) Part III: Credit and Risk in Early Modern Institutions 8.

Trust and Risk in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice Line Cotegnies (Sorbonne University, France) 9. Taking Note and the Technologies of Trust in Ben Jonson's Volpone Angus Vine (University of Stirling, UK) 10. Trust, Risk, and Credit in The Winter's Tale Rita Banerjee, The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, India 11. Trust and Risk: The Corporation Liam Haydon, Head of Strategy for the Natural Environment Research Council, UK 14. Romance and the Spirit of Trust: Narratives of Forswearing in Chrétien, Shakespeare and Mozart Laura Hatch (Brigham Young University, USA) and Julia Reinhard Lupton (The University of California, Irvine, USA).