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

Maren Clegg Hyer is Assistant Professor of English, Snow College. Her many publications include Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World (co-editor with Gale Owen-Crocker, Liverpool University Press 2020) and Old English Lexicology and Lexicography (co-editor with Haruko Momma and Samantha Zacher, Boydell, 2020). Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita of The University of Manchester; she was formerly Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. She was co-founder and for 15 years co-editor of the journal Medieval Clothing and Textiles. Her recent books include Clothing the Past: Surviving Garments from Early Medieval to Early Modern Western Europe (with Elizabeth Coatsworth, Brill, 2018), Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World (co-editor with Maren Clegg Hyer, Liverpool University Press, 2020) and Textiles of the Viking North Atlantic (co-editor with Alexandra Lester-Makin, Boydell & Brewer, 2024).

Introduction  
Maren Clegg Hyer and Gale R. Owen-Crocker

1. Sight and Vision in Early Medieval English Art
Catherine E. Karkov

2. ‘Þær wæs hearpan sweg, swotol sang scopes’: Sounds of Pre-Conquest Community
Jill Frederick

3. Sweetness and Bitterness: The Sense of Taste in and around Anglo-Saxon England
Alban Gautier

4. The Blossoms’ Sweet Stench: Smell in Early Medieval England
Maren Clegg Hyer

5. The Sense of Touch: The Haptic Communication of Emotions in Anglo-Saxon England from a Linguistic Perspective
Javier E. Díaz-Vera

6. Bedship and Sex-Play:
Sex and Sensuality in Early Medieval England


Christopher Monk

7. Above the Head of a Serpent: Women and Anger in Pre-Conquest England
Hilary Fox

8. Terrifying Sounds in Beowulf: A Model for Theorizing Fear, Horror and Related Emotions in Pre-Conquest England
Brian O’Camb

9. 'Murnan on Mode': Grief in Early Medieval England
Kristen Mills

10. Sensing Joy in Early Medieval England: Reconstructing Acts of Rejoicing in the Harley Psalter
Christopher Monk

11. Smelly Sheep, Shimmering Silk: The Sensual and Emotional Experience of Textiles
Gale R. Owen-Crocker

12. Gerontophobia in Early Medieval England: Anglo-Saxon Reflections on Old Age
Thijs Porck

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