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Anglo-Saxon Emotions
Reading the Heart in Old English Language, Literature and Culture
Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland Series
Coordinators: Jorgensen Alice, McCormack Frances, Wilcox Jonathan
Language: EnglishSubjects for Anglo-Saxon Emotions:
Keywords
england; michael; lapidge; paris; psalter; dictionary; old; english; wifes; Young Men; lament; Biblia Sacra Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem; Book III; Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae; Klaeber’s Beowulf; CCCC; Si Te; Encomium Emmae Reginae; Anglo-Saxon Emotion; American Standard Version; Wife’s Lament; English Medical Texts; Paris Psalter; Bloody Tears; Grendel’s Mother; Christ III; Farewell Scene; Emotional Duress; Psalter Text; English Gloss; Anglo-Saxon Texts; Ontological Game; Baa Baa Black Sheep; Bloody Rain; Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Publication date: 12-2019
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 01-2015
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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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.
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).
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