Geroumk at vigi: Old Icelandic Perspectives on Selfhood, Agency and Guilt

我的论文发展并应用了最近关于前现代心理学的学术见解来分析中世纪冰岛传奇文学中的代理，自我和内疚，证明自我不仅被理解为受影响，而且被渗透其中的社会，身体和超自然影响所产生。学者们长期以来一直强调古冰岛伦理的另类，但本文表明，在将自我视为环境因素的产物，将代理视为集体品质的过程中，这些传奇预示了现代犯罪学和社会正义的意识形态趋势。

My thesis develops and applies the insights of the most recent scholarship on premodern psychology to the analysis of agency, selfhood and guilt in medieval Icelandic saga literature, demonstrating that the self is understood to be not merely affected but generated by the social, somatic and supernatural influences that permeate it. Scholars have long emphasised the alterity of Old Icelandic ethics, but thisthesis shows that, in conceiving of the self as a product of environmental factors, and agency as a collective quality, the sagas prefigure the ideological trends of modern criminology and social justice.