Emotional Alterity in the Medieval North Sea World

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Av Erin Sebo, Matthew Firth, Daniel Anlezark

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-08-25
Mått148 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt381 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
Antal sidor284
Upplaga2023
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031339677

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Chapter 1: Emotional Alterity in the Medieval Northern Sea World.- Chapter 2: Grotesque Emotions in Old Norse Literature: Swelling Bodies, Spurting Fluids, Tears of Hail.- Chapter 3: “Þá fær Þorbirni svá mjǫk at hann grætr”: Emotionality in the Sagas of East Iceland.- Chapter 4: On the Wild Side: “Impossible” Emotions in Medieval German Literature.- Chapter 5: “In an Overfurious Mood”: Emotion in Medieval Frisian Law and Life.- Chapter 6: The Vasa Mortis and Misery in Solomon and Saturn II.- Chapter 7: De Profundis: Sadness and Healing.- Chapter 8: The Hagiographers of Early England and the Impossible Humility of the Saints.- Chapter 9: Rageand Lust in the Afterlives of King Edgar the Peaceful.- Chapter 10: ‘Shrink Not Appalled from My Great Sorrow’: Translating Emotion in the Celtic Revival.