Emotional Alterity in the Medieval North Sea World
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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. 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…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
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.
Autorenporträt
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 McCaughey Professor of Early English Literature and Language at the University of Sydney, Australia.
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The multidisciplinary character of this volume, and the expanse of the physical and emotional geographies it traverses, should render it of interest to a wide range of scholars, including both specialists in the early medieval period and historians of emotion more broadly, on whose shelves it will certainly deserve a place amid the more specialised studies of emotion that it will surely inspire. (Stuart Rich, Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, Vol. 20 (2), 2024)