Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature: Body, Mind, Voice

 

The presentation and depiction of emotions in the single most prominent and influential story matter of the Middle Ages, the Arthurian legend, is the subject of this volume.

Literary texts both clarify and complicate our understanding of medieval emotions; they not only represent characters experiencing emotions and reacting emotionally to the behaviour of others within the text, but also evoke and play upon emotions in the audiences which heard these texts performed or read.

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 as both embodied and consciously articulating emotions.

Dr. Frank Brandsma
 

About the authors

Frank Brandsma teaches Comparative Literature (Middle Ages) at Utrecht University; Carolyne Larrington is a Fellow in Medieval English 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.

 

  • Title: Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature: Body, Mind, Voice
  • Authors: Frank Brandsma, Carolyne Larrington, Corinne Saunders (eds.)
  • ISBN: 9781843844211
  • Publisher: Cambridge, D S Brewer (2015)