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Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages
Michelle Karnes
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Description for Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages
Hardcover. Revises the history of medieval imagination with a detailed analysis of its role in the period's meditations and theories of cognition. This title examines Bonaventure's meditational works, "the Meditationes vitae Christi", "the Stimulis amoris", "Piers Plowman", and Nicholas Love's "Myrrour", among others. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: HPCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 544.
In "Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages", Michelle Karnes revises the history of medieval imagination with a detailed analysis of its role in the period's meditations and theories of cognition. Karnes here understands imagination in its technical, philosophical sense, taking her cue from Bonaventure, the thirteenth-century scholastic theologian and philosopher who provided the first sustained account of how the philosophical imagination could be transformed into a devotional one. Karnes examines Bonaventure's meditational works, "the Meditationes vitae Christi", "the Stimulis amoris", "Piers Plowman", and Nicholas Love's "Myrrour", among others, and argues that the cognitive importance that imagination enjoyed in ... Read more
In "Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages", Michelle Karnes revises the history of medieval imagination with a detailed analysis of its role in the period's meditations and theories of cognition. Karnes here understands imagination in its technical, philosophical sense, taking her cue from Bonaventure, the thirteenth-century scholastic theologian and philosopher who provided the first sustained account of how the philosophical imagination could be transformed into a devotional one. Karnes examines Bonaventure's meditational works, "the Meditationes vitae Christi", "the Stimulis amoris", "Piers Plowman", and Nicholas Love's "Myrrour", among others, and argues that the cognitive importance that imagination enjoyed in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226425313
SKU
V9780226425313
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About Michelle Karnes
Michelle Karnes is assistant professor of English at Stanford University.
Reviews for Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages
"A learned and well-written book about the philosophy of imagination and the late-medieval practice of devotional meditation. Karnes's argument is powerful and convincing, and makes a valuable addition to a lively field in current medieval studies." (Nicholas Watson, Harvard University)"