The Craft of Thought

The Craft of Thought
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 458
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ISBN-10 : 0521795419
ISBN-13 : 9780521795418
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Book Synopsis The Craft of Thought by : Mary Jean Carruthers

Download or read book The Craft of Thought written by Mary Jean Carruthers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-26 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 recent volume examines medieval monastic meditation as a discipline for making thoughts, and discusses its influence on literature, art, and architecture. In a process akin to today's 'creative' thinking, or 'cognition', this discipline recognises the essential roles of imagination and emotion in meditation. Deriving examples from a variety of late antique and medieval sources, with excursions into modern architectural memorials, this study emphasises meditation as an act of literary composition or invention, the techniques of which notably involved both words and making mental 'pictures' for thinking and composing.


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