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Anglo-Saxon psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin traditions /

Lockett analyses both well-studied and little-known texts, including Insular Latin grammars, The Ruin, the Old English Soliloquies, The Rhyming Poem, and the writings of Patrick, Bishop of Dublin. She demonstrates that the Platonist-Christian theory of the incorporeal mind was known to very few Angl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lockett, Leslie, 1974-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2011
Colección:Toronto Anglo-Saxon series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : toward an integrated history of Anglo-Saxon psychologies
  • Anglo-Saxon anthropologies
  • The hydraulic model of the mind in Old English narrative
  • The hydraulic model, embodiment, and emergent metaphoricity
  • The psychological inheritance of the Anglo-Saxons
  • First lessons in the meaning of corporeality : insular Latin grammars and riddles
  • Anglo-Saxon psychology among the Carolingians : Alcuin, Candidus Wizo, and the problem of Augustinian pseudepigrapha
  • The Alfredian soliloquies : one man's conversation to the doctrine of the unitary sawol
  • Ælfric's battle against materialism
  • Epilogue : challenges to cardiocentrism and the hydraulic model during the long eleventh century (ca. 990-ca. 1110).