[Video - Norwich HEMA Society]

wow these two girls are such good friends

do you have any academic papers or work in mind if I wanted to read further on medieval displays of masculine emotion?

*vibrates* I absolutely do. Since it sounds as though you're interested in this at any time and in any place during the Middle Ages, the below will be an assortment.

Will Cerbone, “Real Men of the Viking Age,” in: Whose Middle Ages? Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past, 243-55 (2019) [Designed for a student audience, deliberately contrasts Viking ideals with those of, e.g., MCU Thor]

Jo Ann McNamara, “The Herrenfrage: The Restructuring of the Gender System, 1050 to 1150," in: Medieval Masculinities, ed. Clare A. Lees (1994) [This is a classic for a reason, and I think does a really interesting/useful job of talking about how class and vocation mattered to the expression/understanding of masculinity]

James A. Schultz, Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality (2006) [I hope I'm remembering the emotional history content of this one correctly]

Jim Casey, "Feeling It Like a Man: Masculine Grief in Medieval and Early Modern Texts," in: Grief, Gender, and Identity in the Middle Ages (2021) [Starts off with Butler and Bourdieu, to give you a feel for it]

Also, while I haven't personally read it, I'm just so glad that Robin Morris has written an essay called "Sad Men in Beowulf."

Also also, a couple of good books about medieval emotion more generally, not focused on masculinity specifically:

Barbara Rosenwein, Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages (2006)

Paul R. Hyams, Rancor and Reconciliation in Medieval England (2003)

Any fancy temperature words? Like replacements for hot, cold and whatever in between

Algid - cold

Arctic - bitter cold

Ardent - fiery, hot

Balmy - mild, temperate

Blazing - of outstanding power, speed, heat, or intensity

Calenture - a fever formerly supposed to affect sailors in the tropics

Cryogenic - being or relating to very low temperatures

Decalescence - the decrease in temperature when the rate of heat absorption during transformation exceeds the rate of heat input while heating metal through a transformation range

Febrile - marked or caused by fever; feverish

Febrility - feverishness

Fervent - very hot; glowing

Fervid - very hot; burning

Frigid - intensely cold

Frore - frosty, frozen

Frosty - briskly cold; chilly

Gelid - extremely cold; icy

Glacial - extremely cold

Hibernal - of, relating to, or occurring in winter

Hyperthermic - exceptionally high fever especially when induced artificially for therapeutic purposes

Hypothermic - subnormal temperature of the body

Igneous - of, relating to, or resembling fire; fiery

Lukewarm - moderately warm; tepid

Molten - having warmth or brilliance

Pyrexia - abnormal elevation of body temperature; fever

Recalescence - the increase in temperature when the rate of heat liberation during transformation exceeds the rate of heat dissipation while cooling metal through a transformation range

Rigorous - marked by extremes of temperature or climate

Rime - frost

Scalding - hot enough to scald

Searing - very hot

Steamy - hot and humid

Tepid - moderately warm; lukewarm

Thermogenic - relating to, caused by, or inducing the production of heat

Torrid - giving off intense heat; scorching

Wintry - of, relating to, or characteristic of winter; chilly

Xerothermic - characterized by heat and dryness

Hope this helps with your writing. Do tag me, or send me a link. I'd love to read your work!

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Been meaning to draw more of these guys since my interest has been revitalized by Hades II ^^

HADES + Thanzag (7/?)

Frank Bernard Dicksee (1853-1928), Chivalry, 1885, oil on canvas, Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales.

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