Analysis of how emotion is pictured in Arthurian legend.
Literary texts complicate our understanding of medieval emotions; they
not only represent characters experiencing emotion and reaction
emotionally to the behaviour of others within the text, but also evoke
and play upon emotion inthe audiences which heard these texts performed
or read. The presentation and depiction of emotion in the single most
prominent and influential story matter of the Middle Ages, the Arthurian
legend, is the subject of this volume.Covering texts written in English,
French, Dutch, German, Latin and Norwegian, the essays presented here
explore notions of embodiment, the affective quality of the construction
of mind, and the intermediary role of the voice asboth an embodied and
consciously articulating emotion.
FRANK BRANDSMA teaches Comparative Literature (Middle Ages) at Utrecht
University; CAROLYNE LARRINGTON is Professor of Medieval European
Literature at the University of Oxford and Official Fellow in Medieval
English Literature at St John's College, Oxford; CORINNE SAUNDERS is
Professor of Medieval Literature in the Department of English Studies
and Co-Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities at the University
of Durham.
Contributors: Anne Baden-Daintree, Frank Brandsma, Helen Cooper, Anatole
Pierre Fuksas, Jane Gilbert, Carolyne Larrington, Andrew Lynch, Raluca
Radulescu, Sif Rikhardsdottir, Corinne Saunders.
