For good reason, activists and scholars have long advocated for an understanding of
disability beyond its traditional modern conceptualisation as an individual problem that …

Recent decades have seen a resurgence of interest among historians and archaeologists in
reassessing trade networks and cross-cultural exchanges between medieval Scandinavia …

Kennings can provide insight into Old Norse poets' conceptualization of emotions, cognition,
and the body, by way of the artistic associations the poets have made in their creation. This …

AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF MEDIEVAL HEALING can expand beyond the confines of textual
sources. This is exemplified by the discovery of bloodletting fleams from medieval Oslo, iron …

Icelandic prose narratives from the 13th and 14th centuries are replete with instances of
metamorphosis, humans transforming into animals, or changing shape in an indeterminate …

One of the most highly acclaimed of the thirteenth-century Íslendingasögur, Njáls saga,
includes a unique account of somatic emotional display. When Þórhallr Ásgrímsson learns …

Health, Enhancement and Human-Lithic Relations in Medieval Iceland1 concepts of the
body and human health in Old Norse-Icelandic literature have received considerable …

The “mind” is a complex object that rests on presumptions of a particular biophysical entity: a
subjectivity that is aware of its existence as a self. Yet, what constitutes—and constituted …

Studies of the Middle Ages acknowledge that the body is one of the gaps in history yet to be
filled in. Traditional historiography operates outside the realm of corporeality because it …

As we sojourn deeper into the Anthropocene and face impending ecological crises, it is
more important than ever to rediscover and restructure our relationship with the more-than …