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Emotional Alterity in the Medieval North Sea World

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Editors:
  1. Erin Sebo

    1. Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

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  2. Matthew Firth

    1. Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

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  3. Daniel Anlezark

    1. University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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  • Use the history of emotions to explore the interconnectedness of societies in the medieval North Sea world
  • Moves away from considering medieval texts in terms of literary tropes
  • Demonstrates the connections between the study of emotion in medieval cultures and other disciplines

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions (PSHE)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Emotional Alterity in the Medieval Northern Sea World

    • Erin Sebo, Matthew Firth, Daniel Anlezark
    Pages 1-16

  3. Grotesque Emotions in Old Norse Literature: Swelling Bodies, Spurting Fluids, Tears of Hail

    • Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir
    Pages 17-42

  4. “Þá fær Þorbirni svá mjǫk at hann grætr”: Emotionality in the Sagas of East Iceland

    • Carolyne Larrington
    Pages 43-67

  5. On the Wild Side: “Impossible” Emotions in Medieval German Literature

    • Sonja Kerth
    Pages 69-94

  6. “In an Overfurious Mood”: Emotion in Medieval Frisian Law and Life

    • Rolf H. Bremmer Jr
    Pages 95-124

  7. The Vasa Mortis and Misery in Solomon and Saturn II

    • Daniel Anlezark
    Pages 125-149

  8. De Profundis: Sadness and Healing

    • Christina Lee
    Pages 151-170

  9. The Hagiographers of Early England and the Impossible Humility of the Saints

    • Rosalind Love
    Pages 171-200

  10. Rage and Lust in the Afterlives of King Edgar the Peaceful

    • Matthew Firth
    Pages 201-230

  11. ‘Shrink Not Appalled from My Great Sorrow’: Translating Emotion in the Celtic Revival

    • Kate Louise Mathis
    Pages 231-278

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 279-284
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

    Erin Sebo, Matthew Firth

  • University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Daniel Anlezark

About the editors

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Emotional Alterity in the Medieval North Sea World

  • Editors: Erin Sebo, Matthew Firth, Daniel Anlezark

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33965-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-33964-6Published: 25 August 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-33967-7Due: 25 September 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-33965-3Published: 24 August 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2946-5958

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-5966

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 284

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Medieval Europe, Medieval Literature, Historiography and Method, Cultural History, History, general

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