Introduction : toward an integrated history of Anglo-Saxon psychologies -- Anglo-Saxon anthropologies -- The hydraulic model of the mind in Old English narrative -- The hydraulic model, embodiment, and emergent metaphoricity -- The psychological inheritance of the Anglo-Saxons -- First lessons in the meaning of corporeality : insular Latin grammars and riddles -- Anglo-Saxon psychology among the Carolingians : Alcuin, Candidus Wizo, and the problem of Augustinian pseudepigrapha -- The Alfredian soliloquies : one man's conversation to the doctrine of the unitary sawol -- Ælfric's battle against materialism -- Epilogue : challenges to cardiocentrism and the hydraulic model during the long eleventh century (ca. 990-ca. 1110).
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