Emotions on the Fringes. Feelings of the Marginalised from Late Antique to Early Modern Literature

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Edited by Felix Lummer

With a Foreword by Sif Ríkharðsdóttir

Publication date: April, 2024

Pages: 313, colour

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Foreword

   Sif Ríkharðsdóttir


CHAPTER 1. Charting Emotions in Literary and Historical Contexts: An Introduction to Emotions on the Fringes

   Felix Lummer


CHAPTER 2. “Felynge [...] nothyng”: Fringe Figures, Grief, and the Ethos of Unfeeling in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess

   Grace Catherine Greiner


CHAPTER 3. The (In)Visible Body of Emotion in Partonopeu de Blois and Partalopa saga 

   Meritxell R. de la Torre


CHAPTER 4. Supernatural Sentiments: The Language of Emotions in the fornaldarsögur

   Felix Lummer, Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir


CHAPTER 5. In the Folds of the Flesh: The Emotions of the Draugar and their Victims in the Íslendingasögur

   Natalie Hopwood


CHAPTER 6. Furor and Royal Martyrdom in Early Nordic Historiography

   Elizabeth Hasseler


CHAPTER 7. Love, the Holy Family, and the Song of Songs in the “Judas Ballad”

   Hope Doherty-Harrison


CHAPTER 8. “I hope þat þer bee noon siche cristen man”: The Prick of Jewish “Stony-Heartedness” in Medieval Passion Meditations

   Rowan Wilson


CHAPTER 9. The Merciful Anger of the Christians Against the Moors in the Golden Hispanic Epic: The Redemption of the Hispanic Soldiery in Juan Rufo’s Austríada

   Marta Cristina Oria de Rueda Molins


CHAPTER 10. The King, the Nobility, and All the Others? Popular Emotions in the “Annales” of Jan Długosz

   Kalina Słaboszowska


CHAPTER 11. From Sentiment to Fact: How Did the Letter 20 of Ambrose of Milan Shape Empress Justina as a Bad Feminine Figure?

   Amélie Belleli


Notes on Contributors

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Editor(s)
Felix Lummer
Imprint
Trivent Medieval
Book series
History and Art
Volume no.
7
Book series editor(s)
Gerhard Jaritz, Monica Ann Walker Vadillo
ISBN (hardcover)
978-615-6696-17-5
ISBN (paperback)
978-615-6696-18-2
eISBN
978-615-6696-19-9
Publication date
April, 2024
Page numbers
313

Specific References

This volume contains ten articles dedicated to the comparative study of emotions in literature. The present anthology titled "Emotions on the Fringes: Feelings of the Marginalised from Late Antiquity to Early Modern Literature" initially arose from a series of panels held at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds in 2022. The term ‘Fringe’ in this book’s title is interpreted in its widest sense, signifying both geographical boundaries and the manifestation of social or ideological marginalisation. This broad definition facilitates the inclusion of various methodologies and a spectrum of textual evidence in the discussion. As a result, ‘Fringe’ is interpreted to include liminality, both figurative and literal marginality, and the supernatural. The contributions presented in this volume are therefore not only addressing emotions relating to ‘Fringes’ in both Old English and Old Norse-Icelandic literature, but also consider historical accounts, correspondences, and epic poetry from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period.

FELIX LUMMER holds a Ph.D. in Old Nordic Religion and Belief from the University of Iceland. He is a Sessional Lecturer of a course on Old Nordic Religion and Belief at the same institution. His current research interests are Old Nordic belief and mythology, translation studies, the studies of emotions in literature and the belliphonic.

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