Contribution to Book
After the Horror: Traumatic Loss and the Search for Meaning in Alcuin of York’s Writings about Lindisfarne and Northumbria
English Faculty Publications
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Disciplines
Abstract
This essay addresses the manner in which literature negotiates the violence inherent to medieval and Early Modern European societies. In “After the Horror: Traumatic Loss and the Search for Meaning in Alcuin of York’s Writings about Lindisfarne and Northumbria” June-Ann Greeley explores the work of the eighth-century scholar and poet Alcuin and his response to the traumatic Viking destruction of his former monastery of Lindisfarne.
Citation Information
Greeley, J. A. (2020). After the horror: Traumatic loss and the search for meaning in Alcuin of York’s writings about Lindisfarne and Northumbria. In R. G. Sullivan & M. Pages (Eds.), Art and violence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (pp. 149-171). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Chapter 8 in Art and Violence in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, edited by Robert G. Sullivan and Meriem Pagès. ISBN 9781527560192 (hardcover)