The craft of thought : meditation, rhetoric, and the making of images, 400-1200
"A companion to Mary Carruthers' earlier study of memory in medieval culture, The Book of Memory, [this new book] 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 recognizes 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 emphasizes meditation as an act of literary composition or invention, the techniques of which notably involved both words and the making of mental 'pictures' for thinking and composing."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2000
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2000
History
xvii, 399 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
9780521795418, 9780521582322, 0521795419, 0521582326
44851882
1. Collective memory and memoria rerum
An architecture for thinking
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."
Originally published: 1998