Sincerity in Medieval English Language and Literature

• Main Author: Williams, Graham (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: New Approaches to English Historical Linguistics
• Subjects: Historical linguistics.; Literature, Modern.; Philology.; Linguistics.; Pragmatics.; British literature.; Comparative linguistics.; Historical Linguistics.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; Language and Literature.; British and Irish Literature.; Comparative Linguistics.

This book traces the development of the ideal of sincerity from its origins in Anglo-Saxon monasteries to its eventual currency in fifteenth-century familiar letters. Beginning by positioning sincerity as an ideology at the intersection of historical pragmatics and the history of emotions, the autho...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Before sincerity: Pagan beliefs of language and emotion
• Chapter 3: God who knows the heart: The Christianization of language and emotion
• Chapter 4: Sincerity in contrition: From confessions to apologies
• Chapter 5: Sincerity in love: From 'caritas' to 'affectio maritalis'
• Chapter 6: Conclusion.