Cognitive Sciences and Medieval Studies : An Introduction.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Cognitive Sciences and Medieval Studies -- I Questions of method -- 1 How Modular are Medieval Cognitive Theories? -- 2 An Unrealised Conversation: Medieval Mysticism and the Common Core -- 3 Questions of Value: Brain Science, Aesthetics and Art in the Neurohumanities -- II Histories of Neuroscience, Psychology and Mental Illness -- 4 Neuroscience and the Dialectics of History -- 5 Medieval English Understanding of Mental Illness and Parallel Diagnosis to Contemporary Neuroscience -- 6 Attachment Theory for Historians of Medieval Religion: An Introduction -- III Case Studies: re ading texts and minds -- 7 'A Knot So Suttel and So Mighty': On Knitting, Academic Writing and Julian of Norwich -- 8 Making Up a Mind: '4E' Cognition and the Medieval Subject -- 9 Cognitive Approaches to Affective Poetics in Early English Literature -- IV Approaching Art and Artefacts -- 10 Medieval Art History and Neuroscience: An Introduction -- 11 Spoons, Whorls, and Caroles: How Medieval Artefacts Can Help Keep Your Brain on Its Toes -- Afterword: The Medieval Brain and Modern Neuroscience -- Index -- Back Cover.

This book argues for the value of applying methods deriving from cognitive sciences (such as neuroscience or psychology) to studies of medieval history, literature, art and culture, and suggests ways in which this comparative approach might be achieved.

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