In Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages, Michelle Karnes revises the history of medieval imagination with a detailed analysis of its role i

The Craft of Thought, first published in 1998, is a companion to Mary Carruthers' earlier study of memory in medieval culture, The Book of Memory. This more rec

When the ancient Greeks looked up into the heavens, they saw not just sun and moon, stars and planets, but a complete, coherent universe, a model of the Good th

This collection brings together 14 essays by international specialists in Medieval and Renaissance culture to bring recent insights from cognitive science and p

A study of the practice of vivid, self-directed imagination in the optimistic spirit of the early-modern French writers.