Karnes Michelle - Imagination Meditation And Cognition In The Middle Ages - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: In Imagination Meditation and Cognition in the Middle Ages Michelle Karnes revises the history of medieval imagination with a detailed analysis of its role in the period's meditations and theories of cognition. Karnes here understands imagination in its technical philosophical sense taking her cue from Bonaventure the thirteenth - century scholastic theologian and philosopher who provided the first sustained account of how the philosophical imagination could be transformed into a devotional one. Karnes examines Bonaventure's meditational works the Meditationes vitae Christi the Stimulis amoris Piers Plowman and Nicholas Love's Myrrour among others and argues that the cognitive importance that imagination enjoyed in scholastic philosophy informed its importance in medieval meditations on the life of Christ. Emphasizing the cognitive significance of both imagination and the meditations that relied on it she revises a long - standing association of imagination with the Middle Ages. In her account imagination was not simply an object of suspicion but also a crucial intellectual spiritual and literary resource that exercised considerable authority.
Title: Imagination Meditation And Cognition In The Middle Ages
Author(s): Karnes Michelle
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226527598
Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Date: 12/20/2017
Category: Western Philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, C 500 To C 1600