Emotional Alterity in the Medieval North Sea World

2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-33964-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions

This book addresses a little-considered aspect of the study of the history of emotions in medieval literature: the depiction of perplexing emotional reactions. Medieval literature often confronts audiences with displays of emotion that are improbable, physiologically impossible, or simply unfathomable in modern social contexts. The intent of such episodes is not always clear; medieval texts rarely explain emotional responses or their motivations. The implication is that the meanings communicated by such emotional display were so obvious to their intended audience that no explanation was required. This raises the question of whether such meanings can be recovered. This is the task to which the contributors to this book have put themselves. In approaching this question, this book does not set out to be a collection of literary studies that treat portrayals of emotion as simple tropes or motifs, isolated within their corpora. Rather, it seeks to uncover how such manifestations of feelingmay reflect cultural and social dynamics underlying vernacular literatures from across the medieval North Sea world.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sebo, Erin

Anlezark, Daniel

Firth, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Emotional Alterity in the Medieval North Sea World; Erin Sebo, Matthew Firth and Daniel Anlezark.- PART I: THE SOMATIC EXPRESSION OF EMOTION.- 1. ‘Swollen Sinews’: Embodied Affect in Medieval Ireland; Kristen Mills.- 2. Grotesque Old Norse Emotions: Swelling Bodies and Spurting Fluids; Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir.- 3. On the Wild Side? ‘Impossible’ Emotions in Medieval German Literature; Sonja Kerth.- PART II: EMOTION AS NARRATIVE SCHEMA.- 4. Unlocking Misery: The Vasa Mortis and Fate in Solomon and Saturn II; Daniel Anlezark.- 5. Rage and Lust in the Afterlives of King Edgar the Peaceful; Matthew Firth.- 6. ‘Þá fær Þorbirni svá mjök at hann grætr’: Emotionality in the Sagas of East Iceland; Carolyne Larrington.- 7. ‘Let grief and sorrow fill the hearts of queens’: Violence, Remorse, and Extremity in the Celtic Revival; Kate Louise Mathis.- PART III: EMOTION IN PRACTICE.- 8. The Hagiographers of Early England and the Impossible Humility of Vessels of Clay; Rosalind Love.- 9. If Tristitia is a Cardinal Sin, how to Avoid Sinning?; Christina Lee.- 10. Anger in Medieval Frisian Law; Rolf H. Bremmer Jr.- 11. Variations of Grief: Exploring Burials from the Pre-Christian Viking Town Birka and Christian Early Medieval Sigtuna within a Framework of Emotional Studies; Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson.

Über Autor(innen)

Erin Sebo is Associate Professor of Early English Literature and Language at Flinders University, Australia.
Matthew Firth is Associate Lecturer in Medieval History and Literature at Flinders University, Australia. 

Daniel Anlezark is the McCaugheyProfessor of Early English Literature and Language at the University of Sydney, Australia.