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Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe, vol. 39
Cultural Models for Emotions in the North Atlantic Vernaculars, 700–1400
Edel Porter, Javier E. Díaz-Vera (eds)
- Pages: approx. 363 p.
- Size:156 x 234 mm
- Illustrations:1 col.
- Language(s):English
- Publication Year:2025
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This collection combines innovative and multidisciplinary approaches to investigate the evolution of cultural models of emotions in the geographical and conceptual region of the North Atlantic, as represented in medieval Celtic, Norse-Icelandic, and Early English sources.
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BIO
Edel Porter is a lecturer of Historical Linguistics and Old English Language and Literature at the Department of Modern Languages, University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain. Her research and publications focus on skaldic poetry, emotions in Old Norse Literature, and the post-medieval reception of Old Norse Literature.
Javier E. Díaz-Vera is Chair of English Historical Linguistics at the Department of Modern Languages, University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). His research focuses on the study of conceptual metaphor and metonymy from a variationist perspective. He has published a wide variety of papers and book chapters on the multimodal expression of emotions, cognition and sensorial perception in historical varieties of English, with special attention to Old English.
Summary
While the medieval regions that form modern-day Britain, Ireland, Iceland, and the Scandinavian states were, very much like today, home to diverse ethnic and linguistic groups, it is evident that the peoples who inhabited the north-western Atlantic seaboard at this time were nonetheless connected by key cultural, environmental, historical, and ideological experiences that set them apart from other regions of Europe. This volume is the first to focus specifically on these cultural and linguistic connections from the perspective of the history of emotions. The contributions collected here examine cultural encounters among medieval North Atlantic peoples with regard to the gradual development of shared emotional models and the emergence of early cross-cultural emotional communities in this region. The chapters also explore how the folk psychologies illustrated in the oldest European vernacular writing traditions (Irish, English, and Scandinavian) bear witness to cultural models for emotions that first took shape in pre-Christian times.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Problematizing Emotions and their Linguistic Expression in the Medieval North Atlantic
Edel Porter and Javier E. Díaz-Vera
2. Fear and Loathing in Early Medieval Ireland: Investigating Emotions Connected to Early Irish Satirical Poetry
Eoin Ó Donnchadha
3. Ship of Volition, Seabed of Desire: Vernacular Models of the Breast in Skaldic Diction
Edel Porter
4. WONDER and the Supernatural in Old English Verse: An Assessment of WONDER as a Potentially Mixed Emotional Response
Francisco Javier Minaya-Gómez
5. Conceptualising Anger in the Old English ‘Pastoral Care’
Daria Izdebska
6. Poisoned Arrows and Flames of Grace: Emotions Inside and Outside in Felix’s Life of St Guthlac and the Old English Prose Life of St Guthlac
Alice Jorgensen
7. The Love for the Self and Gawain’s Desire to Survive: An Ockhamist Reading of Emotions in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Israa Qallab
8. Blood, Rain, and Tears: Eco-Emotive Metaphor in the Medieval North
Timothy Bourns
9. SADNESS in Old English and in Old Norse: Externalising the Mind in the Body in Two North Atlantic Cultures
Javier E. Díaz-Vera and Teodoro Manrique-Antón
10. ‘Spiritual Joy Against Worldly Sorrow’: Exploring the Emotional Landscape of Tallaght
Nathan Millin
11. Emotion, Embodiment, and the Heart in Old Norse-Icelandic
Colin Mackenzie
12. Hendr hafa þau ok þreifa ekki: Tactile Sensitivity and Emotional Interaction in Old Norse Literature
Teodoro Manrique-Antón
