Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	203
Title	Getting Emotional with Beowulf
Date/Time	Monday 4 July 2022: 14.15-15.45
Sponsor	Oxford Medieval Studies
Organiser	Francis Leneghan, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford
Moderator/Chair	Daniel Thomas, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford
Paper 203-a	Beowulf and Emotional Practice (Language: English) Alice D. Jorgensen, School of English, Trinity College Dublin Index Terms: Language and Literature - Old English; Mentalities; Social History
Paper 203-b	The Surging of Water, the Surging of Feeling: The Mental Seascape in Beowulf (Language: English) Jacek Olesiejko, Wydział Anglistyki, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Poznań Index Terms: Language and Literature - Old English; Maritime and Naval Studies; Mentalities
Paper 203-c	Righteous Indignation: Beowulf's Anger Reconsidered (Language: English) Francis Leneghan, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford Index Terms: Hagiography; Language and Literature - Old English; Mentalities
Abstract	The past decade or so has seen a surge of interest in representations of emotional states in medieval literature. Beowulf is a poem of contrasting emotions: its characters, both human and monstrous, move through a range of inner states, from melancholy and despair to joy and delight, from crippling anxiety and fear to violent rage, from wonder to horror. Papers in this session will focus on connections between oral poetry and social practice, representations of the mind as a mental sea-scape, and hagiographical contexts for the hero's anger in his combats with the monsters.