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Cover 1 Contents 7 Illustrations 9 Abbreviations 11 Contributors 13 Introduction 17 1. Sight and Vision in Early Medieval English Art 28 2. ‘Þær wæs hearpan sweg, swotol sang scopes’: Sounds of Pre-Conquest Community 49 3. Sweetness and Bitterness: The Sense of Taste in andaround Anglo-Saxon England 70 4. The Blossoms’ Sweet Stench: Smell in Early Medieval England 86 5. The Sense of Touch: The Haptic Communication of Emotions in Anglo-Saxon England from a Linguistic Perspective 103 6. Bedship and Sex-Play: Sex and Sensuality in Early Medieval England 123 7. Above the Head of a Serpent: Women and Anger in Pre-Conquest England 142 8. Terrifying Sounds in Beowulf: A Model for Theorizing Fear, Horror and Related Emotions in Pre-Conquest England 158 9. ‘Murnan on Mode’: Grief in Early Medieval England 174 10. Sensing Joy in Early Medieval England: Reconstructing Acts of Rejoicing in the Harley Psalter 193 11. Smelly Sheep, Shimmering Silk: The Sensual and Emotional Experience of Textiles 213 12. Gerontophobia in Early Medieval England: Anglo-Saxon Reflections on Old Age 235 Notes 252 Suggested Reading 299 Index 305

Author

Maren Clegg Hyer, Gale R. Owen-Crocker

Language

EN