The Old Norse Emotions Network is an AHRC-funded research network, running 2024-6. The network brings together internationally-leading and emerging scholars from the UK, Europe and Australia to consider fundamental questions about emotional representation in Old Norse sources. The network seeks to foster significant interaction between the network's scholars, which will lead to a number of substantial publilcations.
The field of Old Norse emotion studies is still developing. At present there is no scholarly consensus on basic methodological issues such as: how we can go about reading emotion from Old Norse textual medieval, which theoretical models are appropriate for the study of medieval Norse emotion, or even what consitute's the field's proper object of study. The Old Norse Emotions Network facilitates productive dialogue between an international group of c. 15 scholars with research interests in Old Norse emotion. By collectively considering the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of the sub-field, and producing foundational works of scholarship on Old Norse emtotion, the network will facilitate timely intervention inthe field's critical discussion and its outputs will provide a solid and legitimate foundation for further work in the area.
The network will support three 2-day in person workshops, two in Oxford (where the PI is based) and one at the University of Iceland (where the Co-I is based).
