Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions / Leslie Lockett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lockett, Leslie, author.

Series:

Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; 8.

Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism.

English literature.

Psychology in literature.

Mind and body in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (512 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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, boil, or be constricted by pressure. While readers usually assume the metaphorical nature of such literary images, Leslie Lockett, in Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions, argues that these depictions are literal representations of Anglo-Saxon folk psychology.

Lockett analyses both well-studied and little-known texts, including Insular Latin grammars, The Ruin, the Old English Soliloquies, The Rhyming Poem, and the writings of Patrick, Bishop of Dublin. She demonstrates that the Platonist-Christian theory of the incorporeal mind was known to very few Anglo-Saxons throughout most of the period, while the concept of mind-in-the-heart remained widespread. Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions examines the interactions of rival - and incompatible - concepts of the mind in a highly original way."--Pub. desc.

Contents:

Introduction : toward an integrated history of Anglo-Saxon psychologies

Anglo-Saxon anthropologies

The hydraulic model of the mind in Old English narrative

The hydraulic model, embodiment, and emergent metaphoricity

The psychological inheritance of the Anglo-Saxons

First lessons in the meaning of corporeality : insular Latin grammars and riddles

Anglo-Saxon psychology among the Carolingians : Alcuin, Candidus Wizo, and the problem of Augustinian pseudepigrapha

The Alfredian soliloquies : one man's conversation to the doctrine of the unitary sawol

AElfric's battle against materialism

Epilogue : challenges to cardiocentrism and the hydraulic model during the long eleventh century (ca. 990-ca. 1110).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Nov 2018)

ISBN:

1-4875-1649-5

1-4426-9037-2

OCLC:

1076418081