In order to integrate early medieval Britain into the wider scholarly research into the history of emotions, this volume brings together established and younger scholars in order to stimulate further study within the discipline. With a tight focus on emotion, on Anglo Saxon England, and on language and literature, the volume considers a range of methodologies and theoretical perspectives, examines the interplay of emotion and textuality, explores how emotion is conveyed through gesture, interrogates emotions in religious devotional literature, and considers the place of emotion in heroic culture.…mehr
In order to integrate early medieval Britain into the wider scholarly research into the history of emotions, this volume brings together established and younger scholars in order to stimulate further study within the discipline. With a tight focus on emotion, on Anglo Saxon England, and on language and literature, the volume considers a range of methodologies and theoretical perspectives, examines the interplay of emotion and textuality, explores how emotion is conveyed through gesture, interrogates emotions in religious devotional literature, and considers the place of emotion in heroic culture.
Alice Jorgensen is Assistant Professor of English to 1500 at Trinity College, Dublin. Frances McCormack is lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and author of Chaucer and the Culture of Dissent: The Lollard Context and Subtext of the Parson's Tale (2007). Jonathan Wilcox is the John C. Gerber Professor and Chair of the English Department at the University of Iowa, USA, and editor of Scraped, Stroked and Bound: Materially Engaged Readings of Medieval Manuscripts (2013).
Inhaltsangabe
Affective poetics: the cognitive basis of emotion in Old English poetry. The limited role of the brain in mental and emotional activity according to Anglo-Saxon medical learning. The curious case of TORN: the importance of lexical-semantic approaches to the study of emotions in Old English. 'So what did the Danes feel?' Emotion and litotes in Old English poetry. An embarrassment of clues: interpreting Anglo-Saxon blushes. Naming shame: translating emotion in the Old English psalter glosses. Learning about emotion from the Old English prose psalms of the Paris Psalter. Those bloody trees: the affectivity of Christ. Emotion and gesture in Hrothgar's Farewell to Beowulf. Ne Sorga: grief and revenge in Beowulf. Maxims I: In the 'mod' for life. The neurological and physiological effects of emotional duress on memory in two Old English elegies. Early medieval experiences of grief and separation through the eyes of Alcuin and others: the grief and gratitude of the oblate.
Affective poetics: the cognitive basis of emotion in Old English poetry. The limited role of the brain in mental and emotional activity according to Anglo-Saxon medical learning. The curious case of TORN: the importance of lexical-semantic approaches to the study of emotions in Old English. 'So what did the Danes feel?' Emotion and litotes in Old English poetry. An embarrassment of clues: interpreting Anglo-Saxon blushes. Naming shame: translating emotion in the Old English psalter glosses. Learning about emotion from the Old English prose psalms of the Paris Psalter. Those bloody trees: the affectivity of Christ. Emotion and gesture in Hrothgar's Farewell to Beowulf. Ne Sorga: grief and revenge in Beowulf. Maxims I: In the 'mod' for life. The neurological and physiological effects of emotional duress on memory in two Old English elegies. Early medieval experiences of grief and separation through the eyes of Alcuin and others: the grief and gratitude of the oblate.
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