Alice Jorgensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5401066 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alice Jorgensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alice |
| FAMILY NAME | Jorgensen |
| SIGNATURE | JØRGENSEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6467-3018 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry: The Poetics of Feeling
The best summary of Jennifer Lorden's new book is the one she offers herself: “I argue . . . that while the conventions of later affective piety are often taken as the thing itself, the earliest English devotional poetry already has conventions for engaging devotional feeling” (p. 9). Lorden is not the first to suggest that types of affective piety were practiced before the days of Anselm, Bernard of Clairvaux, and their ilk; for Old English and …
Emotion, Morality and Agency in Wærferth's Old English Version of Gregory's Dialogues
Werferth's translation of Gregory's Dialogues contains portrayals of the emotions of numerous holy people.The relationship of emotions to agency is of particular interest.Emotions that cannot be controlled or that express vulnerability underscore that saints' power is not their own but comes from God.Yet saintly emotions can also exhibit a synergy with divine wrath or grace.Moreover, the holy life involves a struggle to control the mind which is …
Shame and the Breast in Ælfric’s Life of St. Agatha and the Harley Psalter
Anglo-Saxon Emotions: Reading the Heart in Old English Language, Literature and Culture
It shames me to say it’: Ælfric and the concept and vocabulary of shame
An investigation of Ælfric's shame-vocabulary allows us to divide his shame concept into three areas: being (a)shamed, active shaming, and the shameful. The prototypical scenario of shame is humiliation or exposure before others. However, Ælfric asks his audience to imagine this kind of public, worldly shame in relation to failures to live up to Christian ideals; he thus encourages the ethicization and psychologization of shame. In addition, read…
Historicizing Emotion: The Shame-Rage Spiral in Ælfric's Life of St Agatha
This essay reads the confrontation of saint and persecutor in Ælfric's Life of St Agatha in terms of a “shame-rage spiral”. In the context of the passio shame and rage function as part of the text's repertoire of signs, marking the evil of the pagan. However, an Anglo-Saxon audience, attuned to issues of honour, shame and vengeance, might also feel some sympathy towards him. Insofar as the audience recognize their kinship with the persecutor, the…
Emotion, Morality and Agency in Wærferth's Old English Version of Gregory's Dialogues
Werferth's translation of Gregory's Dialogues contains portrayals of the emotions of numerous holy people.The relationship of emotions to agency is of particular interest.Emotions that cannot be controlled or that express vulnerability underscore that saints' power is not their own but comes from God.Yet saintly emotions can also exhibit a synergy with divine wrath or grace.Moreover, the holy life involves a struggle to control the mind which is …
It shames me to say it’: Ælfric and the concept and vocabulary of shame
An investigation of Ælfric's shame-vocabulary allows us to divide his shame concept into three areas: being (a)shamed, active shaming, and the shameful. The prototypical scenario of shame is humiliation or exposure before others. However, Ælfric asks his audience to imagine this kind of public, worldly shame in relation to failures to live up to Christian ideals; he thus encourages the ethicization and psychologization of shame. In addition, read…
Historicizing Emotion: The Shame-Rage Spiral in Ælfric's Life of St Agatha
This essay reads the confrontation of saint and persecutor in Ælfric's Life of St Agatha in terms of a “shame-rage spiral”. In the context of the passio shame and rage function as part of the text's repertoire of signs, marking the evil of the pagan. However, an Anglo-Saxon audience, attuned to issues of honour, shame and vengeance, might also feel some sympathy towards him. Insofar as the audience recognize their kinship with the persecutor, the…
Anglo-Saxon Emotions: Reading the Heart in Old English Language, Literature and Culture
Shame and the Breast in Ælfric’s Life of St. Agatha and the Harley Psalter
Emotion, Morality and Agency in Wærferth's Old English Version of Gregory's Dialogues
Werferth's translation of Gregory's Dialogues contains portrayals of the emotions of numerous holy people.The relationship of emotions to agency is of particular interest.Emotions that cannot be controlled or that express vulnerability underscore that saints' power is not their own but comes from God.Yet saintly emotions can also exhibit a synergy with divine wrath or grace.Moreover, the holy life involves a struggle to control the mind which is …
Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry: The Poetics of Feeling
The best summary of Jennifer Lorden's new book is the one she offers herself: “I argue . . . that while the conventions of later affective piety are often taken as the thing itself, the earliest English devotional poetry already has conventions for engaging devotional feeling” (p. 9). Lorden is not the first to suggest that types of affective piety were practiced before the days of Anselm, Bernard of Clairvaux, and their ilk; for Old English and …
Art (5 works) · Medieval Literature and History (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (3 works) · Shame (3 works) · Agatha (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works)