Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World

Maren Clegg Hyer is Assistant Professor of English, Snow College. Her many publications include Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World (co-editor with Gale Owen-Crocker, Liverpool University Press 2020) and Old English Lexicology and Lexicography (co-editor with Haruko Momma and Samantha Zacher, Boydell, 2020). Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita of The University of Manchester; she was formerly Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. She was co-founder and for 15 years co-editor of the journal Medieval Clothing and Textiles. Her recent books include Clothing the Past: Surviving Garments from Early Medieval to Early Modern Western Europe (with Elizabeth Coatsworth, Brill, 2018), Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World (co-editor with Maren Clegg Hyer, Liverpool University Press, 2020) and Textiles of the Viking North Atlantic (co-editor with Alexandra Lester-Makin, Boydell & Brewer, 2024).

• Introduction  Maren Clegg Hyer and Gale R. Owen-Crocker1. Sight and Vision in Early Medieval English ArtCatherine E. Karkov2. ‘Þær wæs hearpan sweg, swotol sang scopes’: Sounds of Pre-Conquest CommunityJill Frederick3. Sweetness and Bitterness: The Sense of Taste in and around Anglo-Saxon EnglandAlban Gautier4. The Blossoms’ Sweet Stench: Smell in Early Medieval EnglandMaren Clegg Hyer5. The Sense of Touch: The Haptic Communication of Emotions in Anglo-Saxon England from a Linguistic PerspectiveJavier E. Díaz-Vera6. Bedship and Sex-Play:Sex and Sensuality in Early Medieval EnglandChristopher Monk7. Above the Head of a Serpent: Women and Anger in Pre-Conquest EnglandHilary Fox8. Terrifying Sounds in Beowulf: A Model for Theorizing Fear, Horror and Related Emotions in Pre-Conquest EnglandBrian O’Camb9. 'Murnan on Mode': Grief in Early Medieval EnglandKristen Mills10. Sensing Joy in Early Medieval England: Reconstructing Acts of Rejoicing in the Harley PsalterChristopher Monk11. Smelly Sheep, Shimmering Silk: The Sensual and Emotional Experience of TextilesGale R. Owen-Crocker12. Gerontophobia in Early Medieval England: Anglo-Saxon Reflections on Old AgeThijs PorckNotesSuggested Readings

'This book is an excellent resource for scholars who want to broaden the range of evidence they bring to a specific problem or issue... [It is] is also a useful entry point for those new to using materiality as evidence, offering a broad selection of case studies to dip into and think about.' Georgina Pitt, Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association