Emotional Alterity in the Medieval North Sea World
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 unfathomab...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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