Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World [Hardcover]

Through an examination of senses such as sounds, taste, smell, touch and emotions such as anger, grief, horror and joy readers are introduced to the world of the early medieval English through the perceptions of daily life. No less real than object, built environment, or waterscape, such perceptions reveal many of the ways sense and emotion informed and influenced the lives of the peoples of pre-Conquest England.Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World seeks to illuminate important aspects of daily living and the experience of the environment through sense and emotion, using archaeological, art 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 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 early medieval England can inform the study of England before the Norman Conquest. 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 evident among the early medieval English peoples. Experienced senses and emotions are thus as central to understanding the inner and outer landscape of the pre-Conquest English as crafts, towns or water structures.Introduction
Maren Clegg Hyer and Gale R. Owen-Crocker

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

2. '??r w?s 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 Senselƒ%