Affective Spirituality: Theory and Practice in Bede and Alfred the Great

DeGregorio, Scott

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“…Affective devotional practices have a long history in Christian spirituality, and many features of the compassionate devotion to the suffering Christ and his Mother have been identified, for instance, in Byzantine traditions and Anglo-Saxon religious texts (see e.g. Sticca 1988;DeGregorio 2005;Edsall 2014). The influence of these ideas on early Irish spirituality remains to be systematically investigated.…”

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Praying with Blathmac

Bergholm

2022

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The mid-eighth-century Old Irish text known as the poems of Blathmac is a long devotional composition meditating on the mystery of Christ’s cross and its significance for salvation history. Since the discovery and subsequent publication of the text nearly six decades ago, the work has garnered considerable scholarly interest for its linguistic and socio-historical value, but many aspects of its devotional orientation remain less systematically explored. This article examines the poems’ devotional discourse by focusing on the intersections of martyrdom and memory in Blathmac’s composition. Taking as a starting point the text’s intended use as a prayer, the discussion considers how the text’s overarching interest in exemplary acts of self-sacrifice relates to the practices of ritual commemoration, and how these strategies of collective memory work to convey and sustain a shared understanding of Christian identity.

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Praying with Blathmac

Bergholm

2022

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“…Some of the Anglo-Saxon letters, too, evoke a sense of "not thereness." While recent scholarly studies that engage with the emergent new interdisciplinary focus on the history of the emotions offer culturally specific analyses of affectivity and feelings such as compassion in medieval Europe (Frantzen, 2005;DeGregorio, 2005), the theorized approaches of Dinshaw and Freccero offer insight into how the Old English elegies continue to resonate, despite-or precisely because of-their resistance to being fixed in time and meaning (see also Hadbawnik & Reynolds, 2015). The shifting or elusive relationships and circumstances that lie behind the emotions evoked in these poems are simultaneously compelling and confusing.…”

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A Fragmentary Archive: Migratory Feelings in Early Anglo-Saxon Women’s Letters

Watt

2016

Journal of Homosexuality

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The letters by Anglo-Saxon women in the Boniface correspondence are connected by cultural practices and emotions centered on the conversion mission that functioned to maintain connections between the Anglo-Saxon diaspora. A striking recurring focus of these letters is on loss and isolation, which connects them to the Old English elegies. Many of the letters describe the writers' traumatic experiences that result from the death or absence of kin. These are women who endured the trauma of being left behind when others migrated overseas or who, in traveling away from their homeland, found themselves isolated in an alien environment, displaced in time as well as space. This article offers an analysis of the letters, focusing on the queer temporalities they explore, the queer emotions they evoke, and the queer kinships that they forge. It argues that the women's letters represent fragments of an early queer archive of migratory feelings.

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Affective Spirituality: Theory and Practice in Bede and Alfred the Great

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

Praying with Blathmac

Praying with Blathmac

A Fragmentary Archive: Migratory Feelings in Early Anglo-Saxon Women’s Letters

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