More than Words Can Say: Late Medieval Affective Vocabularies.
- Author / Editor
- Amsler, Mark.
More than Words Can Say: Late Medieval Affective Vocabularies.
- Published
- Brian Gastle and Erick Kelemen, eds. Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture: Essays in Honor of James M. Dean (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2018.), pp. 3-24.
- Description
- Explores the semantic field of "affectus"/"affeccioun" in medieval Latin grammar, Chaucer (MilT and TC), Margery Kempe, and several devotional texts, clarifying its wide "range of meanings and connotations . . . as a feeling category term," positive and negative, interior and exterior, secular and religious, semantic and performative.
- Alternative Title
- Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
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