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Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Minimal wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2025 Hard Cover. 333, [4] pp. While the medieval regions that form modern-day Britain, Ireland, Iceland, and the Scandinavian states were, very much like today, home to diverse ethnic and linguistic groups, it is evident that the peoples who inhabited the north-western Atlantic seaboard at this time were nonetheless connected by key cultural, environmental, historical, and ideological experiences that set them apart from other regions of Europe. This volume is the first to focus specifically on these cultural and linguistic connections from the perspective of the history of emotions. The contributions collected here examine cultural encounters among medieval North Atlantic peoples with regard to the gradual development of shared emotional models and the emergence of early cross-cultural emotional communities in this region. The chapters also explore how the folk psychologies illustrated in the oldest European vernacular writing traditions (Irish, English, and Scandinavian) bear witness to cultural models for emotions that first took shape in pre-Christian times.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. While the medieval regions that form modern-day Britain, Ireland, Iceland, and the Scandinavian states were, very much like today, home to diverse ethnic and linguistic groups, it is evident that the peoples who inhabited the north-western Atlantic seaboard at this time were nonetheless connected by key cultural, environmental, historical, and ideological experiences that set them apart from other regions of Europe. This volume is the first to focus specifically on these cultural and linguistic connections from the perspective of the history of emotions. The contributions collected here examine cultural encounters among medieval North Atlantic peoples with regard to the gradual development of shared emotional models and the emergence of early cross-cultural emotional communities in this region. The chapters also explore how the folk psychologies illustrated in the oldest European vernacular writing traditions (Irish, English, and Scandinavian) bear witness to cultural models for emotions that first took shape in pre-Christian times. This collection combines innovative and multidisciplinary approaches to investigate the evolution of cultural models of emotions in the geographical and conceptual region of the North Atlantic, as represented in medieval Celtic, Norse-Icelandic, and Early English sources. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. While the medieval regions that form modern-day Britain, Ireland, Iceland, and the Scandinavian states were, very much like today, home to diverse ethnic and linguistic groups, it is evident that the peoples who inhabited the north-western Atlantic seaboard at this time were nonetheless connected by key cultural, environmental, historical, and ideological experiences that set them apart from other regions of Europe. This volume is the first to focus specifically on these cultural and linguistic connections from the perspective of the history of emotions. The contributions collected here examine cultural encounters among medieval North Atlantic peoples with regard to the gradual development of shared emotional models and the emergence of early cross-cultural emotional communities in this region. The chapters also explore how the folk psychologies illustrated in the oldest European vernacular writing traditions (Irish, English, and Scandinavian) bear witness to cultural models for emotions that first took shape in pre-Christian times. This collection combines innovative and multidisciplinary approaches to investigate the evolution of cultural models of emotions in the geographical and conceptual region of the North Atlantic, as represented in medieval Celtic, Norse-Icelandic, and Early English sources. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. While the medieval regions that form modern-day Britain, Ireland, Iceland, and the Scandinavian states were, very much like today, home to diverse ethnic and linguistic groups, it is evident that the peoples who inhabited the north-western Atlantic seaboard at this time were nonetheless connected by key cultural, environmental, historical, and ideological experiences that set them apart from other regions of Europe. This volume is the first to focus specifically on these cultural and linguistic connections from the perspective of the history of emotions. The contributions collected here examine cultural encounters among medieval North Atlantic peoples with regard to the gradual development of shared emotional models and the emergence of early cross-cultural emotional communities in this region. The chapters also explore how the folk psychologies illustrated in the oldest European vernacular writing traditions (Irish, English, and Scandinavian) bear witness to cultural models for emotions that first took shape in pre-Christian times. This collection combines innovative and multidisciplinary approaches to investigate the evolution of cultural models of emotions in the geographical and conceptual region of the North Atlantic, as represented in medieval Celtic, Norse-Icelandic, and Early English sources. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Hardback, Pages: 337, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:1 col., 3 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503610443. Summary While the medieval regions that form modern-day Britain, Ireland, Iceland, and the Scandinavian states were, very much like today, home to diverse ethnic and linguistic groups, it is evident that the peoples who inhabited the north-western Atlantic seaboard at this time were nonetheless connected by key cultural, environmental, historical, and ideological experiences that set them apart from other regions of Europe. This volume is the first to focus specifically on these cultural and linguistic connections from the perspective of the history of emotions. The contributions collected here examine cultural encounters among medieval North Atlantic peoples with regard to the gradual development of shared emotional models and the emergence of early cross-cultural emotional communities in this region. The chapters also explore how the folk psychologies illustrated in the oldest European vernacular writing traditions (Irish, English, and Scandinavian) bear witness to cultural models for emotions that first took shape in pre-Christian times. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1. Problematizing Emotions and their Linguistic Expression in the Medieval North Atlantic Edel Porter and Javier E. Díaz-Vera 2. Fear and Loathing in Early Medieval Ireland: Investigating Emotions Connected to Early Irish Satirical Poetry Eoin Ó Donnchadha 3. Ship of Volition, Seabed of Desire: Vernacular Models of the Breast in Skaldic Diction Edel Porter 4. WONDER and the Supernatural in Old English Verse: An Assessment of WONDER as a Potentially Mixed Emotional Response Francisco Javier Minaya-Gómez 5. Conceptualising ANGER in the Old English 'Pastoral Care' Daria Izdebska 6. Poisoned Arrows and Flames of Grace: Emotions Inside and Outside in Felix's Life of St Guthlac and the Old English Prose Life of St Guthlac Alice Jorgensen 7. The Love for the Self and Gawain's Desire to Survive: An Ockhamist Reading of Emotions in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Israa Qallab 8. Blood, Rain, and Tears: Eco-emotive Metaphor in the Medieval North Timothy Bourns 9. SADNESS in Old English and in Old Norse: Externalizing the Mind in the Body in Two North Atlantic Cultures Javier E. Díaz-Vera and Teodoro Manrique-Antón 10. 'Spiritual Joy Against Worldly Sorrow': Exploring the Emotional Landscape of Tallaght Nathan Millin 11. Emotion, Embodiment, and the Heart in Old Norse-Icelandic Colin Mackenzie 12. 'Hendr hafa þau ok þreifa ekki': Tactile Sensitivity and Emotional Interaction in Old Norse Literature Teodoro Manrique-Antón 0 g.…