The craft of thought : meditation, rhetoric, and the making of images, 400-1200
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The craft of thought : meditation, rhetoric, and the making of images, 400-1200
（Cambridge studies in medieval literature, 34）
Cambridge University Press, 2000, c1998
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"First paperback edition 2000"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-386) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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'.
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