Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World

Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World
ISBN-10
1789621445
ISBN-13
9781789621440
Category
History
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2020-04-30
Authors
Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Maren Clegg Hyer

Description

Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Medieval English World seeks to illuminate important aspects of daily living and the experience of the environment through sense and emotion, using archaeological and textual sources. Twelve papers explore sight, sound, taste, smell, touch, and emotions such as anger, horror, grief and joy. Similar in theme and method to the first, second, and third volumes in the Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World series, the collected articles illuminate how an understanding of the sensory and emotional landscape that helped form the daily lives of the peoples and the environments of the medieval English world can inform reading and scholarship on medieval England. The sights, smells, and sounds that informed the physical and emotional landscape of town, scriptoria, and hall, for example, explain urban planning, literary imagery, and emotional attachment core to the cultures of the medieval English. Similarly, other senses and emotions are as significant to understanding the landscape of the medieval English as crafts, towns, or water structures.

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