The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200Cambridge University Press, 2000 M10 26 - 399 pages A companion to Mary Carruthers' earlier study of memory in medieval culture, The Book of Memory, her new book, The Craft of Thought, examines medieval monastic meditation as a discipline for making thoughts, and discusses its influence on literature, art, and architecture, deriving examples from a variety of late antique and medieval sources, with excursions into modern architectural memorials. The 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. |
Contents
Collective memory and memoria rerum | 7 |
Memoria rerum remembering things | 24 |
Remember Heaven the aesthetics of mneme | 60 |
Cognitive images meditation and ornament | 116 |
Dream vision picture and the mystery of the bed chamber | 171 |
The place of the Tabernacle | 221 |
Notes | 277 |
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The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200 Mary Carruthers No preview available - 1998 |
Common terms and phrases
ancient architectural art of memory atque Augustine Augustine's basic Baudri Beatus Benedict Bernard Bernard of Clairvaux Bible Book of Memory building called Carolingian Cassiodorus CCSL chapter Christian church Cistercian Clairvaux cloister Codex Amiatinus cognitive colors commentary common composition construction craft culture Daphne described discussed ductus ekphrasis emotional enargeia enim etymology example exegesis eyes Ezekiel figure Gregory Hugh of St human Ibid images imagination intentio invention Jerusalem John Cassian Latin Libanius literal literary liturgy machine manuscript Martianus Capella matter means medieval meditation mental Middle Ages mind mnemonic mnemotechnical monastery monasticism monks narrative one's orator ornament orthopraxis pagan painted patterns Peter picture Plate poem prayer Prudentius Psalm Psychomachia puns quae Quintilian quod reading recollection remembering Rhetorica ad Herennium Roman Rutland Psalter says scene Songs spiritual story structure sunt Tabernacle Temple things thought tion tradition translation trope twelfth century verse Victor vision visionary visual word