Overview

Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World seeks to illuminate important aspects of daily living and the experience of the environment through sense and emotion, using archaeological, art and textual sources. Twelve papers explore sight, sound, taste, smell, touch, and emotions such as anger, horror, grief and joy. Similar in theme and method to the first, second and third volumes in the Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World series, the collected articles illuminate how an understanding of the sensory and emotional landscape that helped form the daily lives of the peoples and the environments of early medieval England can inform the study of England before the Norman Conquest. The sights, smells, and sounds that informed the physical and emotional landscape of town, scriptoria, and hall, for example, explain urban planning, literary imagery and emotional attachment evident among the early medieval English peoples. Experienced senses and emotions are thus as central to understanding the inner and outer landscape of the pre-Conquest English as crafts, towns or water structures.

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Author:   Maren Clegg Hyer (Department of English, Valdosta State University (United States)) ,  Gale R. Owen-Crocker (English, American and Creative Writing, University of Manchester (United Kingdom))
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Liverpool University Press
ISBN:  

9781802078305

ISBN 10:   1802078304
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   01 March 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction   Maren Clegg Hyer and Gale R. Owen-Crocker 1. Sight and Vision in Early Medieval English Art Catherine E. Karkov 2. ‘Þær wæs hearpan sweg, swotol sang scopes’: Sounds of Pre-Conquest Community Jill Frederick 3. Sweetness and Bitterness: The Sense of Taste in and around Anglo-Saxon England Alban Gautier 4. The Blossoms’ Sweet Stench: Smell in Early Medieval England Maren Clegg Hyer 5. The Sense of Touch: The Haptic Communication of Emotions in Anglo-Saxon England from a Linguistic Perspective Javier E. Díaz-Vera 6. Bedship and Sex-Play: Sex and Sensuality in Early Medieval England Christopher Monk 7. Above the Head of a Serpent: Women and Anger in Pre-Conquest England Hilary Fox 8. Terrifying Sounds in Beowulf: A Model for Theorizing Fear, Horror and Related Emotions in Pre-Conquest England Brian O’Camb 9. 'Murnan on Mode': Grief in Early Medieval England Kristen Mills 10. Sensing Joy in Early Medieval England: Reconstructing Acts of Rejoicing in the Harley Psalter Christopher Monk 11. Smelly Sheep, Shimmering Silk: The Sensual and Emotional Experience of Textiles Gale R. Owen-Crocker 12. Gerontophobia in Early Medieval England: Anglo-Saxon Reflections on Old Age Thijs Porck Notes Suggested Readings

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'This book is an excellent resource for scholars who want to broaden the range of evidence they bring to a specific problem or issue... [It is] is also a useful entry point for those new to using materiality as evidence, offering a broad selection of case studies to dip into and think about.' Georgina Pitt, Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association

'This book is an excellent resource for scholars who want to broaden the range of evidence they bring to a specific problem or issue... [It is] is also a useful entry point for those new to using materiality as evidence, offering a broad selection of case studies to dip into and think about.' Georgina Pitt, Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association 'This collection is both useful and thought-provoking in its juxtaposition of sensory and emotive stimuli and its consistent situation of both in a culture and time period alien to modern experience.' Carol L. Neuman de Vegvar, Speculum

Author Information

Maren Clegg Hyer is Professor of English at Valdosta State University (Georgia). Her many publications include Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World (ed with Della Hooke, Liverpool, 2017) and Old English Lexicology and Lexicography (ed with Haruko Momma and Samantha Zacher, Boydell, 2020). Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita of The University of Manchester; she was formerly Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. She was co-founder and for 15 years co-editor of the journal Medieval Clothing and Textiles. Her recent books include Clothing the Past: Surviving Garments from Early Medieval to Early Modern Western Europe (with Elizabeth Coatsworth, Brill, 2018) and Making Sense of the Bayeux Tapestry: Readings and Reworkings (with Anna Henderson, Manchester, 2016).

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