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This book addresses a little-considered aspect of the study of the
history of emotions in medieval literature: the depiction of
perplexing emotional reactions. Medieval literature often confronts
audiences with displays of emotion that are improbable,
physiologically impossible, or simply unfathomable in modern social
contexts. The intent of such episodes is not always clear; medieval
texts rarely explain emotional responses or their motivations. The
implication is that the meanings communicated by such emotional
display were so obvious to their intended audience that no
explanation was required. This raises the question of whether such
meanings can be recovered. This is the task to which the
contributors to this book have put themselves. In approaching this
question, this book does not set out to be a collection of literary
studies that treat portrayals of emotion as simple tropes or
motifs, isolated within their corpora. Rather, it seeks to uncover
how such manifestations of feeling may reflect cultural and social
dynamics underlying vernacular literatures from across the medieval
North Sea world.
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