Disembodied Souls in Early Medieval England

我的项目考察了在400至1200年间，在英格兰，人类灵魂是如何在身体之外被表现出来的。在这一时期创作的圣人的生活中，有大量关于无实体灵魂的故事和幻象。由于我们尚未完全了解的原因，这些圣人的生活的作者们以各种方式描述了这些无形的灵魂。我的项目分析了拉丁语和古英语文本中这些非实体灵魂的例子，以揭示非实体灵魂是如何被想象的，灵魂和身体是如何相互联系的，以及非实体现象被认为是如何工作的。

My project examines how human souls were represented outside their bodies in England during the period 400 to 1200. There is a vast corpus of stories and visions of disembodied souls in the Lives of saints composed during this period. For reasons we are yet to fully understand, the writers of these saints' Lives described these disembodied souls in various ways. My project analyses these examples of disembodied souls in Latin and Old English texts to reveal how the disembodied soul was imagined, how the soul and the body were understood in relation to one another, and how the phenomenon of disembodiment was believed to work.