LEADER 04403oam 2200661 450 001 9910742491003321 005 20240110201924.0 010 $a9783031339653$belectronic book 010 $z9783031339646$bhardcover 010 $z3031339649$bhardcover 010 $a3-031-33965-7 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-33965-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30720800 035 $a(CKB)28046883400041 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30720800 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-33965-3 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928046883400041 100 $a20230824d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcz#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aEmotional alterity in the medieval North Sea world /$fErin Sebo, Matthew Firth, Daniel Anlezark, editors 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (291 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in the History of Emotions 311 $a9783031339646 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 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 mjo?k 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: Rage and Lust in the Afterlives of King Edgar the Peaceful -- Chapter 10: ?Shrink Not Appalled from My Great Sorrow?: Translating Emotion in the Celtic Revival. 330 $aThis book addresses a little-considered aspect of the study of the history of emotions in medieval literature: the depiction of perplexing emotional reactions. Medieval literature often confronts audiences with displays of emotion that are improbable, physiologically impossible, or simply unfathomable in modern social contexts. The intent of such episodes is not always clear; medieval texts rarely explain emotional responses or their motivations. The implication is that the meanings communicated by such emotional display were so obvious to their intended audience that no explanation was required. This raises the question of whether such meanings can be recovered. This is the task to which the contributors to this book have put themselves. In approaching this question, this book does not set out to be a collection of literary studies that treat portrayals of emotion as simple tropes or motifs, isolated within their corpora. Rather, it seeks to uncover how such manifestations of feeling may reflect cultural and social dynamics underlying vernacular literatures from across the medieval North Sea world. Erin Sebo is Associate Professor of Early English Literature and Language at Flinders University, Australia. Matthew Firth is Associate Lecturer in Medieval History and Literature at Flinders University, Australia. Daniel Anlezark is the McCaughey Professor of Early English Literature and Language at the University of Sydney, Australia. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in the History of Emotions 606 $aLiterature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEmotions in literature 606 $aHistoriography 606 $aHistory$xMethodology 606 $aCivilization$xHistory 606 $aIntellectual life$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEmotions in literature. 615 0$aHistoriography. 615 0$aHistory$xMethodology. 615 0$aCivilization$xHistory. 615 0$aIntellectual life$xHistory. 676 $a940.902 702 $aSebo$b Erin 702 $aFirth$b Matthew$f1965- 702 $aAnlezark$b Daniel 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bBDX 801 2$bYDX 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910742491003321 996 $aEmotional Alterity in the Medieval North Sea World$93555467 997 $aUNINA