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Distributed cognition in Medieval and Renaissance culture / edited by Miranda Anderson and Michael Wheeler.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh history of distributed cognitionPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2019]Description: 1 online resource (xii, 364 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781474438155
  • 1474438156
  • 9781474438162
  • 1474438164
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Distributed cognition in Medieval and Renaissance culture.DDC classification:
  • 153.09/02 23
LOC classification:
  • BF311 .D5379 2019eb
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Contents:
Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Series Preface -- Colour Plates -- 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
Summary: This collection brings together 14 essays by international specialists in Medieval and Renaissance culture to bring recent insights from cognitive science and philosophy of mind to bear on how cognition was seen as distributed across brain, body and world between the 9th and 17th centuries.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-354) and index.

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Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Series Preface -- Colour Plates -- 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

This collection brings together 14 essays by international specialists in Medieval and Renaissance culture to bring recent insights from cognitive science and philosophy of mind to bear on how cognition was seen as distributed across brain, body and world between the 9th and 17th centuries.

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