TY - BOOK AU - Cocking,J.M. AU - Murray,Penelope TI - Imagination: a study in the history of ideas SN - 0203980816 AV - B105.I49 C63 1991eb U1 - 128/.3 20 PY - 1991/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Imagination (Philosophy) KW - History KW - PHILOSOPHY KW - Movements KW - Humanism KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Imagination KW - Theories KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-294) and index; 1. The Greek rationalists : Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics -- 2. Imagination begins to be recognized : literary theorists and Neopythagoreans in the early centuries AD -- 3. The Neoplatonists : imagination as the 'vehicle of the soul' -- 4. Neoplatonims in Christian guise : the mystic way as the affirmation and negation of images -- 5. Holy images -- 6. Imaginations in Islam -- 7. The western middle ages -- 8. Ficino -- 9. Ideas about poetry and painting in the Italian Renaissance -- 10. The French Renaissance and after N2 - Explores the history of imagination from antiquity to the Renaissance. The author looks at the writings of Aristotle and Plato, developments in the Middle Ages, with particular attention paid to parallel traditions in Islamic thought, Dante, and the Neo-platonists UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=137960 ER -