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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.
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Abbreviations and Short Titles; Note to Readers; 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 Conversion to the Doctrine of the Unitary sawol; Alfric's Battle against Materialism; Epilogue: Challenges to Cardiocentrism and the Hydraulic Model during the Long Eleventh Century (ca. 990--ca. 1110); Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Leslie Lockett is an assistant professor in the Department of English at The Ohio State University.
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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.
