Table of Contents
Affective poetics: the cognitive basis of emotion in Old English poetry
Antonina Harbus
The limited role of the brain in mental and emotional activity according to Anglo-Saxon medical learning
Leslie Lockett
The curious case of TORN: the importance of lexical-semantic approaches to the study of emotions in Old English
Daria Izdebska
'So what did the Danes feel?' Emotion and litotes in Old English poetry
Stephen Graham
An embarrassment of clues: interpreting Anglo-Saxon blushes
Jonathan Wilcox
Naming shame: translating emotion in the Old English psalter glosses
Tahlia Birnbaum
Learning about emotion from the Old English prose psalms of the Paris Psalter
Alice Jorgensen
Those bloody trees: the affectivity of Christ
Frances McCormack
Emotion and gesture in Hrothgar's Farewell to Beowulf
Kristen Mills
Ne Sorga: grief and revenge in Beowulf
Erin Sebo
Maxims I: In the 'mod' for life
Judith Kaup
The neurological and physiological effects of emotional duress on memory in two Old English elegies
Ronald Ganze
Early medieval experiences of grief and separation through the eyes of Alcuin and others: the grief and gratitude of the oblate
Mary Garrison
Editor(s) Bio
Alice Jorgensen is Assistant Professor of English to 1500 at Trinity College, Dublin.
Frances McCormack is lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and author of Chaucer and the Culture of Dissent: The Lollard Context and Subtext of the Parson’s Tale (2007).
Jonathan Wilcox is the John C. Gerber Professor and Chair of the English Department at the University of Iowa, USA, and editor of Scraped, Stroked and Bound: Materially Engaged Readings of Medieval Manuscripts (2013).