Caroline R Batten
Biographic Data
| ID | 5400640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline R Batten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline R |
| FAMILY NAME | Batten |
| SIGNATURE | BATTEN C R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0736-1955 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Spears and Spikes
The Old Norse medical corpus, both manuscript and epigraphic, illuminates understandings of the body and of the relationship between sickness, somatic emotion and the perceived integrity of the individual self in Viking and medieval Scandinavia. This essay argues that Old Norse medical texts and charms understand illness not only as an imbalance of humours but also as an invasive, anthropomorphised agent that seeks to breach the boundaries of the…
The Critical Study of Masculinities in Old English Literature
Args aðal
This article argues that the most appropriate critical framework for interpreting the comedic aspects of the eddic poems Lokasenna and Þrymskviða — and understanding their social, cultural, and artistic functions for their medieval audiences — is Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the carnivalesque. Both poems are archetypal examples of what Bakhtin calls ‘free play with the sacred’: their degrading humour renews rather than negates, purposefully suppl…
Dark Riders
Strengði hon elfi
The majority of the heroic poems of the Codex Regius (in manuscript c. 1270) focus on the hero Sigurðr Fáfnisbani, the Gjúkung family into whom he marries, particularly his wife Guðrún Gjúkadóttir, and the valkyrie Brynhildr, to whom he is ambiguously bound through mutual oaths. These poems
Strengði hon elfi
Research Article| October 01 2019 Strengði hon elfi: Female Reactions to Male Violence in Eddic Heroic Poetry Caroline R. Batten Caroline R. Batten University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2019) 91 (3): 289–321. https://doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.91.3.0289 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Caroline R. Batten; Strengði hon elf…
Spears and Spikes
The Old Norse medical corpus, both manuscript and epigraphic, illuminates understandings of the body and of the relationship between sickness, somatic emotion and the perceived integrity of the individual self in Viking and medieval Scandinavia. This essay argues that Old Norse medical texts and charms understand illness not only as an imbalance of humours but also as an invasive, anthropomorphised agent that seeks to breach the boundaries of the…
Strengði hon elfi
The majority of the heroic poems of the Codex Regius (in manuscript c. 1270) focus on the hero Sigurðr Fáfnisbani, the Gjúkung family into whom he marries, particularly his wife Guðrún Gjúkadóttir, and the valkyrie Brynhildr, to whom he is ambiguously bound through mutual oaths. These poems
Strengði hon elfi
Research Article| October 01 2019 Strengði hon elfi: Female Reactions to Male Violence in Eddic Heroic Poetry Caroline R. Batten Caroline R. Batten University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2019) 91 (3): 289–321. https://doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.91.3.0289 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Caroline R. Batten; Strengði hon elf…
Dark Riders
Args aðal
This article argues that the most appropriate critical framework for interpreting the comedic aspects of the eddic poems Lokasenna and Þrymskviða — and understanding their social, cultural, and artistic functions for their medieval audiences — is Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the carnivalesque. Both poems are archetypal examples of what Bakhtin calls ‘free play with the sacred’: their degrading humour renews rather than negates, purposefully suppl…
Spears and Spikes
The Old Norse medical corpus, both manuscript and epigraphic, illuminates understandings of the body and of the relationship between sickness, somatic emotion and the perceived integrity of the individual self in Viking and medieval Scandinavia. This essay argues that Old Norse medical texts and charms understand illness not only as an imbalance of humours but also as an invasive, anthropomorphised agent that seeks to breach the boundaries of the…
The Critical Study of Masculinities in Old English Literature
History (5 works) · Medieval Literature and History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Historical and Archaeological Studies (3 works) · Poetry (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · History (2 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (2 works)