Humour is rarely seen to raise its indecorous head in the surviving corpus of Old English literature, yet the value of reading that literature with an eye to humour proves considerable when the right
At different times and in different places, the human form has been regarded in different ways. The Ancient Greeks thought it was the most admirable subject for art, whereas early Christians often vie
The youngest daughter of a founding patriarch of middle Tennessee, Donelson (1807-36) married her first cousin at age 17 and anticipated the typical life of a plantation mistress. But when her uncle,
Research into the emotions is beginning to gain momentum in Anglo-Saxon studies. In order to integrate early medieval Britain into the wider scholarly research into the history of emotions (a major th
