Cognitive Science and Medieval Studies

An Introduction

AvJuliana Dresvina,Victoria Blud

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Del i serien Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages

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Beskrivning

With the rapid development of the cognitive sciences and their importance to how we contemplate questions about the mind and society, recent research in the humanities has been characterised by a 'cognitive turn'. For their part, the humanities play an important role in forming popular ideas of the human mind and in analysing the way cognitive, psychological and emotional phenomena are experienced in time and space. This collection aims to inspire medievalists and other scholars within the humanities to engage with the tools and investigative methodologies deriving from cognitive sciences. Contributors explore topics including medieval and modern philosophy of mind, the psychology of religion, the history of psychological medicine and the re-emergence of the body in cognition. What is the value of mapping how neurons fire when engaging with literature and art? How can we understand psychological stress as a historically specific phenomenon? What can medieval mystics teach us about contemplation and cognition?

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-11-15
Mått:156 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt:560 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:University of Wales Press
ISBN:9781786836748

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Juliana Dresvina is a member of the History Faculty at the University of Oxford, teaching on late-medieval devotion and history of mentality to Middlebury College-CMRS Oxford Humanities Program.Victoria Blud is a research associate in the Department of English and Related Literatures at the University of York, specialising in studies of gender, transgressive speech, emotion, cognition, and ideas about the body.

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“This collection strikes out boldly: refusing to prioritise the sciences as automatically primary in epistemological or methodological terms; exposing the central concept of neuromedievalism to critique; and inviting contributors and readers alike to consider the bases, possibilities, and limits of its capacity to enlighten. The result is enlivening. This fascinating collection offers no simple blueprint for applying cognitive sciences to medieval questions (or vice versa) but rather encourages us to consider what value might be added to each by bringing the two together. There will be some dead ends, it acknowledges, but the potential for mutual enrichment is real and exciting.”

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Cognitive Science and Medieval StudiesJuliana Dresvina and Victoria BludI Questions of method1. How Modular Are Medieval Cognitive Theories? - Jose Filipe Silva2. An Unrealized Conversation: Medieval Mysticism and the Common Core Thesis - Ralph Hood Jr3. Questions of Value: Brain Science, Aesthetics, and Art in the Neurohumanities - Matthew RampleyII Case studies: histories of neuroscience, psychology and mental illness4. Neuroscience and the Dialectics of History - Daniel Lord Smail5. Medieval English Understanding of Mental Illness: Terminology and Symptoms In Comparison to Modern Mental Health Conditions - Wendy Turner6. Attachment Theory for Historians of Medieval Religion - Julie DresvinaIII Case studies: reading texts and minds7. 'A Knot So Subtle and So Mighty': On Knitting, Academic Writing and Julian of Norwich - Godelinde Perk8. Making Up a Mind: '4E' Cognition and the Medieval Subject - Victoria Blud9. Cognitive Approaches to Affective Poetics in Early English Literature - Antonina HarbusIV Case studies: approaching art and artefacts 10. Medieval Art History and Neuroscience: An Introduction - Nadia Pawelchak11. Spoons, Whorls, and Caroles: How Medieval Artifacts Can Help Keep Your Brain on its Toes - Jeff RiderAfterword: The Medieval Brain and Modern Neuroscience - John Onians

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