The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200

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Cambridge University Press, 2000 M10 26 - 399 páginas
A companion to Mary Carruthers' earlier study of memory in medieval culture, The Book of Memory, her new book, The Craft of Thought, examines medieval monastic meditation as a discipline for making thoughts, and discusses its influence on literature, art, and architecture, deriving examples from a variety of late antique and medieval sources, with excursions into modern architectural memorials. The 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.

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Collective memory and memoria rerum
7
Memoria rerum remembering things
24
Remember Heaven the aesthetics of mneme
60
Cognitive images meditation and ornament
116
Dream vision picture and the mystery of the bed chamber
171
The place of the Tabernacle
221
Notes
277
Bibliography
361
Index
387
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