Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture
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This collection brings together 14 essays by international specialists in Medieval and Renaissance culture and provides a general and a period-specific introduction to distributed cognition and the cognitive humanities. The essays bring recent insights in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to bear on how cognition is seen as distributed across brain, body and world. The volume includes essays on law, history, drama, literature, art, music, philosophy, science and medicine, covering topics such as the mind, life and soul; the body and environment; the emotions; language and linguistic theories; theory of mind and interaction theory; the self and subjectivity; social, material and conceptual environments; the memory arts, orality and literacy; and literature and the arts.
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- Intro
- 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
