Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions / / Leslie Lockett.
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 grow warm...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (472 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note to readers
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: toward an integrated history of Anglo-Saxon Psychologies
- 1. Anglo-Saxon Anthropologies
- 2. The Hydraulic Model of the Mind in Old English Narrative
- 3. The Hydraulic Model, Embodiment, and Emergent Metaphoricity
- 4. The Psychological Inheritance of the Anglo-Saxons
- 5. First Lessons in the Meaning of Corporeality: Insular Latin Grammars and Riddles
- 6. Anglo-Saxon Psychology among the Carolingians: Alcuin, Candidus Wizo, and the Problem of Augustinian Pseudepigrapha
- 7. The Alfredian Soliloquies: One Man's Conversion to the Doctrine of the Unitary sawol
- 8. Ælfric's Battle against Materialism
- Epilogue: Challenges to Cardiocentrism and the Hydraulic Model during the Long Eleventh Century (ca. 990-ca. 1110)
- Bibliography
- Index