Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions /

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"Old English verse and prose depict the human mind as a corporeal entity located in the chest cavity, susceptible to spatial and thermal changes corresponding to the psychological states: it was thought that emotions such as rage, grief, and yearning could cause the contents of the chest to gro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lockett, Leslie, 1974-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2011
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Psychology in literature.
Mind and body in literature.
English literature > Old English.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Esprit et corps dans la litterature.
Psychologie dans la litterature.
Litterature anglaise > ca 450-1100 (Vieil anglais) > Histoire et critique.
English literature > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • AElfric's battle against materialism
  • Epilogue : challenges to cardiocentrism and the hydraulic model during the long eleventh century (ca. 990-ca. 1110).

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