Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
VerfasserIn:
Anderson, Miranda,
Wheeler, Michael,
MitwirkendeR:
Anderson, Miranda,
Bolens, Guillemette,
Burrows, Hannah,
Cumming, Julie E.,
Elliott, Elizabeth,
Fradenburg Joy, L. O. Aranye,
Houng, Cynthia,
Lochman, Daniel T.,
Lyne, Raphael,
Maxwell, Kate,
Present, Pieter,
Schäfke, Werner,
Sprevak, Mark,
Söffner, Jan,
Tribble, Evelyn,
Wheeler, Michael,
Wojciehowski, Hannah Chapelle,
Wright, Clare,
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

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