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Anglo-Saxon Emotions

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Anglo-Saxon Emotions book

Reading the Heart in Old English Language, Literature and Culture

Anglo-Saxon Emotions

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Anglo-Saxon Emotions book

Reading the Heart in Old English Language, Literature and Culture
Edited ByAlice Jorgensen, Frances McCormack, Jonathan Wilcox
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2015
eBook Published 15 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315567150
Pages 318 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315567150
SubjectsHumanities, Language & Literature
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Jorgensen, A. (Ed.), McCormack, F. (Ed.), Wilcox, J. (Ed.). (2015). Anglo-Saxon Emotions. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315567150

Research into the emotions is beginning to gain momentum in Anglo-Saxon studies. In order to integrate early medieval Britain into the wider scholarly research into the history of emotions (a major theme in other fields and a key field in interdisciplinary studies), this volume brings together established scholars, who have already made significant contributions to the study of Anglo-Saxon mental and emotional life, with younger scholars. The volume presents a tight focus - on emotion (rather than psychological life more generally), on Anglo-Saxon England and on language and literature - with contrasting approaches that will open up debate. 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. Each chapter asks questions about what is culturally distinctive about emotion in Anglo-Saxon England and what interpretative moves have to be made to read emotion in Old English texts, as well as considering how ideas about and representations of emotion might relate to lived experience. Taken together the essays in this collection indicate the current state of the field and preview important work to come. By exploring methodologies and materials for the study of Anglo-Saxon emotions, particularly focusing on Old English language and literature, it will both stimulate further study within the discipline and make a distinctive contribution to the wider interdisciplinary conversation about emotions.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|18 pages

Introduction

ByAlice Jorgensen

chapter 2|16 pages

Affective Poetics: The Cognitive Basis of Emotion in Old English Poetry

chapter 3|18 pages

The Limited Role of the Brain in Mental and Emotional Activity According to Anglo-Saxon Medical Learning

chapter 4|22 pages

The Curious Case of TORN: The Importance of Lexical–Semantic Approaches to the Study of Emotions in Old English

chapter 5|16 pages

‘So what did the Danes feel?’ Emotion and Litotes in Old English Poetry

chapter 6|18 pages

An Embarrassment of Clues: Interpreting Anglo-Saxon Blushes

ByJonathan Wilcox

chapter 7|18 pages

Naming Shame: Translating Emotion in the Old English Psalter Glosses

chapter 8|16 pages

Learning about Emotion from the Old English Prose Psalms of the Paris Psalter

chapter 9|20 pages

Those Bloody Trees: The Affectivity of Christ

ByFrances McCormack

chapter 10|14 pages

Emotion and Gesture in Hroðgar’s Farewell to Beowulf

ByKristen Mills

chapter 11|16 pages

Ne Sorga: Grief and Revenge in Beowulf

ByErin Sebo

chapter 12|18 pages

Maxims I: In the ‘Mod’ for Life

ByJudith Kaup

chapter 13|16 pages

The Neurological and Physiological Effects of Emotional Duress on Memory in Two Old English Elegies

chapter 14|36 pages

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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