The project is focused on the performance of emotions in medieval texts. Our hypothesis is that medieval selfhood, or a sense of self, can be located through textual evidence, more particularly through its representation via emotive performativity in medieval literary texts.
The project combines multiple research avenues, featured in five different work packages that each contains a particular research objective and associated tasks that together coalesce in the main aim of the project.
WP 1: Emotion in Language
WP 2: Cultural and Literary Conventions of Emotive Behaviour
WP 3: Literary Production and the Performance of Emotion
WP 4: Emotion as Generic Marker
WP 5: Emotion and Selfhood
The project is a collaborative one between scholars at the University of Iceland, the University of Oxford, Utrecht University and Ca´ Foscari University of Venice and is generously funded by the Icelandic Research Fund (RANNÍS) and the University of Iceland Research Fund.
For further information or if you would be interested in working with us do contact the PI at sifr@hi.is.