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The academic interest on the study of emotion on the part of the linguistic community has recently shifted to emotions of an aesthetic nature, defined by Scherer (2005) as non-utilitarian emotions and lately explored by other researchers like Juslin (2013) or Fingerhut and Prinz (2020), who propose a complete list of different aesthetic emotions and a description of the most recurrent action tendencies. However, most of these studies are either empiric or rely on living informants that provide information as to how these emotions are experienced and conceptualised. Virtually no research has been carried out on how former cultures and societies related to aesthetic emotions. In this paper, we will delve into how methods from computational linguistics and corpus-based lexical semantics, like the Behavioural Profiles methodology (Gries, 2010) can, when applied to a corpus of Old English writings, on the one hand compensate for the lack of native speakers and on the other hand be useful in understanding the ideas that are implicit in the usage of aesthetic emotion terms in terms of conceptualisation and evaluation. Drawing on studies on Medieval experiences of beauty (Eco, 2004), ugliness (Eco, 2007), wonder (Brewer, 2016) and awe (Díaz-Vera, 2015), we will highlight how a linguistic and cultural analysis can benefit from the annotation of a textual corpus for the specific purposes of the research and what insights can be gained from this approach.