The Craft of Thought

Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200

AvMary Carruthers,Alastair Minnis

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

Del 34 i serien Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature

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Beskrivning

The Craft of Thought, first published in 1998, is a companion to Mary Carruthers' earlier study of memory in medieval culture, The Book of Memory. This more recent volume examines medieval monastic meditation as a discipline for making thoughts, and discusses its influence on literature, art, and architecture. In a process akin to today's 'creative' thinking, or 'cognition', this discipline recognises the essential roles of imagination and emotion in meditation. Deriving examples from a variety of late antique and medieval sources, with excursions into modern architectural memorials, this study emphasises meditation as an act of literary composition or invention, the techniques of which notably involved both words and making mental 'pictures' for thinking and composing.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2000-10-26
Mått:154 x 229 x 30 mm
Vikt:740 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Antal sidor:456
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521795418

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Mary Carruthers is the author of The Craft of Thought (Cambridge 1998) and The Medieval Craft of Memory (University of Pennsylvania 2002) as well as of The Book of Memory (1990 and 2008). She divides her time between New York City and Oxford, where she holds the positions of Remarque Professor of Literature at New York University and Fellow of All Souls College.

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'… a wide-ranging text … illuminating for scholars of classical and medieval history, art history, and literature, as well as the more obvious disciplines of theology and rhetoric.' Natalie Grinnell, Envoi

Innehållsförteckning

1. Collective memory and memoria rerum; Part I. An Architecture for Thinking; Part II. Memoria Rerum, Remembering Things: 2. 'Remember heaven': the aesthetics of Mneme; 3. Cognitive images, meditation, and ornament; 4. Dream vision, picture, and 'the mystery of the bed chamber'; 5. 'The place of the tabernacle'.