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Sherman Library	PR179.P79 L63 2011		AVAILABLE

Author	Lockett, Leslie.
Title	Anglo-Saxon psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin traditions / Leslie Lockett.
OCLC	682258002
ISBN	9781442642171 (bound)
	1442642173 (bound)
Publisher	Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2011]
	�2011
Description	xiv, 495 pages ; 24 cm.
LC Subject heading/s	English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism.
	Psychology in literature.
	Mind and body in literature.
	Anglo-Saxons -- Psychology.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : toward an integrated history of Anglo-Saxon psychologies -- Anglo-Saxon anthropologies -- The hydraulic model of the mind in Old English narrative -- The hydraulic model, embodiment, and emergent metaphoricity -- The psychological inheritance of the Anglo-Saxons -- First lessons in the meaning of corporeality : insular Latin grammars and riddles -- Anglo-Saxon psychology among the Carolingians : Alcuin, Candidus Wizo, and the problem of Augustinian pseudepigrapha -- The Alfredian soliloquies : one man's conversation to the doctrine of the unitary sawol -- �lfric's battle against materialism -- Epilogue : challenges to cardiocentrism and the hydraulic model during the long eleventh century (ca. 990-ca. 1110).
Summary	"Old English verse and prose depict the human mind as a corporeal entity located in the chest cavity, susceptible to spatial and thermal changes corresponding to the psychological states: it was thought that emotions such as rage, grief, and yearning could cause the contents of the chest to grow warm, boil, or be constricted by pressure. While readers usually assume the metaphorical nature of such literary images, Leslie Lockett, in Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions, argues that these depictions are literal representations of Anglo-Saxon folk psychology.
	Lockett analyses both well-studied and little-known texts, including Insular Latin grammars, The Ruin, the Old English Soliloquies, The Rhyming Poem, and the writings of Patrick, Bishop of Dublin. She demonstrates that the Platonist-Christian theory of the incorporeal mind was known to very few Anglo-Saxons throughout most of the period, while the concept of mind-in-the-heart remained widespread. Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions examines the interactions of rival - and incompatible - concepts of the mind in a highly original way."--pub. desc.

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ISBN	9781442642171 (bound)
	1442642173 (bound)
Author	Lockett, Leslie.
Title	Anglo-Saxon psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin traditions / Leslie Lockett.
Publisher	Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2011]
	�2011

Title

Anglo-Saxon psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin traditions / Leslie Lockett.

Author

Lockett, Leslie.

ISBN	9781442642171 (bound)
	1442642173 (bound)

Description

xiv, 495 pages ; 24 cm.

OCLC

682258002

Publisher	Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2011]
	�2011

Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : toward an integrated history of Anglo-Saxon psychologies -- Anglo-Saxon anthropologies -- The hydraulic model of the mind in Old English narrative -- The hydraulic model, embodiment, and emergent metaphoricity -- The psychological inheritance of the Anglo-Saxons -- First lessons in the meaning of corporeality : insular Latin grammars and riddles -- Anglo-Saxon psychology among the Carolingians : Alcuin, Candidus Wizo, and the problem of Augustinian pseudepigrapha -- The Alfredian soliloquies : one man's conversation to the doctrine of the unitary sawol -- �lfric's battle against materialism -- Epilogue : challenges to cardiocentrism and the hydraulic model during the long eleventh century (ca. 990-ca. 1110).
Summary	"Old English verse and prose depict the human mind as a corporeal entity located in the chest cavity, susceptible to spatial and thermal changes corresponding to the psychological states: it was thought that emotions such as rage, grief, and yearning could cause the contents of the chest to grow warm, boil, or be constricted by pressure. While readers usually assume the metaphorical nature of such literary images, Leslie Lockett, in Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions, argues that these depictions are literal representations of Anglo-Saxon folk psychology.
	Lockett analyses both well-studied and little-known texts, including Insular Latin grammars, The Ruin, the Old English Soliloquies, The Rhyming Poem, and the writings of Patrick, Bishop of Dublin. She demonstrates that the Platonist-Christian theory of the incorporeal mind was known to very few Anglo-Saxons throughout most of the period, while the concept of mind-in-the-heart remained widespread. Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions examines the interactions of rival - and incompatible - concepts of the mind in a highly original way."--pub. desc.

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