Looking Back at Anger: Wrath in Anglo-Saxon England
Rolf H. Bremmer
Today, emotions receive much attention. We are invited to talk about our feelings, ‘emotion talk’ being a newly coined phrase cover this socio-psychological activity. Initially the concern of psychologists, sociologists and anthropologists, have begun attract attention historians linguists. The relative neglect concerted study in past is because emotions, like ecology or gender, very “invisible”. Gestures, facial expressions, vocal volume intonation, for example, rarely recorded any detail. As far as Anglo-Saxon England concerned, scarcely been studied systematic way coherent emotionology Anglo-Saxons yet be developed. This article approaches emotion anger from various angles. First, it briefly discusses concept cultural-historical point view. Next, paid Old English vocabulary. Finally, number case studies follow see how worked England, what extent order can created material. I argue that was valued differently according tradition conversion Christianity brought new attitudes towards it. In warrior culture, continued play role constructing man’s honour, whereas religious circles generally considered censurable.
The Review of English Studies