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Seeking to bridge the gap between various approaches to the study
of emotions, this volume aims at a multidisciplinary examination of
connections between emotions and history and the ways in which
these connections have manifested themselves in historiography,
cultural, and literary studies. The book offers a selected range of
insights into the idea of emotions, affects, and emotionality as
driving forces and agents of change in history. The fifteen essays
it comprises probe into the emotional motives and dispositions
behind both historical phenomena and the ways they were narrated.
Representations of shapeshifters are prominent in medieval culture
and they are particularly abundant in the vernacular literatures of
the societies around the North Sea. Some of the figures in these
stories remain well known in later folklore and often even in
modern media, such as werewolves, dragons, berserkir and
bird-maidens. Incorporating studies about Old English, Norse,
Latin, Irish, and Welsh literature, this collection of essays marks
an important new contribution to the study of medieval
shapeshifters. Each essay highlights how shapeshifting cannot be
studied in isolation, but intersects with many other topics, such
as the supernatural, monstrosity, animality, gender and identity.
Contributors to Shapeshifters in Medieval North Atlantic Literature
come from different intellectual traditions, embracing a
multidisciplinary approach combining influences from literary
criticism, history, philology, and anthropology.
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