This monograph offers an analysis of the lexical domain of beauty and other additional lexical domains that are figuratively used to refer to beauty, highlighting their central role in the Anglo-Saxon formulaic style.

Autorentext

Francisco J. Minaya Gómez is an Assistant Lecturer at the Faculty of Letters in the University of Castilla-La Mancha and a teacher of early Medieval English literature. His research focuses on the conceptualisation and expression of emotions in Old and Middle English language and literature.

Inhalt

Old English - Old English poetry - Anglo-Saxon verse - metaphor studies - cognitive linguistics - aesthetic emotions - emotion research - history of emotions