Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture / / Miranda Anderson, Michael Wheeler.
Reveals the diverse ways that cognition was seen as spread over brain, body and world in the 9–17th centuriesThe second book in an ambitious 4-volume set looking at distributed cognition in the history of thoughtIncludes essays on literature, philosophy, law, art, music, medicine, science and materi...
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition : EHDC
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 p.) :; 9 B/W illustrations 7 colour illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Series Preface
- 1 Distributed Cognition and the Humanities
- 2 Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- 3 Medieval Icelandic Legal Treatises as Tools for External Scaffolding of Legal Cognition
- 4 Horse-Riding Storytellers and Distributed Cognition in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
- 5 Cognitive Ecology and the Idea of Nation in Late-Medieval Scotland: The Flyting of William Dunbar and Walter Kennedy
- 6 The Mead of Poetry: Old Norse Poetry as a Mind-Altering Substance
- 7 Enculturated, Embodied, Social: Medieval Drama and Cognitive Integration
- 8 Ben Jonson and the Limits of Distributed Cognition
- 9 Masked Interaction: The Case for an Enactive View of Commedia dell’Arte (and the Italian Renaissance)
- 10 Thinking with the Hand: The Practice of Drawing in Renaissance Italy
- 11 The Medieval (Music) Book: A Multimodal Cognitive Artefact
- 12 Distributed Cognition, Improvisation and the Performing Arts in Early Modern Europe
- 13 Pierced with Passion: Brains, Bodies and Worlds in Early Modern Texts
- 14 Metaphors They Lived By: The Language of Early Modern Intersubjectivity
- 15 ‘Le Sigh’: Enactive and Psychoanalytic Insights into Medieval and Renaissance Paralanguage
- 16 ‘The adding of artificial organs to the natural’: Extended and Distributed Cognition in Robert Hooke’s Methodology
- Notes on Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index