The Craft of Thought
Title | The Craft of Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Jean Carruthers |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 458 |
Release | 2000-10-26 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780521795418 |
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.
The Book of Memory
Title | The Book of Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Carruthers |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 875 |
Release | 2008-05-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107652251 |
Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new edition devotes much more attention to the role of trained memory in composition, whether of literature, music, architecture, or manuscript books. The new edition will reignite the debate on memory in medieval studies and, like the first, will be essential reading for scholars of history, music, the arts and literature, as well as those interested in issues of orality and literacy (anthropology), in the working and design of memory (both neuropsychology and artificial memory), and in the disciplines of meditation (religion).
The Medieval Craft of Memory
Title | The Medieval Craft of Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Carruthers |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 9780812218817 |
"A volume that will interest a wide spectrum of readers."—Patrick Geary, University of California, Los Angeles
The Craft of Thought
Title | The Craft of Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Carruthers |
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Total Pages | |
Release | 1998 |
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Mathematics and the Craft of Thought in the Anglo-Dutch Renaissance
Title | Mathematics and the Craft of Thought in the Anglo-Dutch Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | Eleanor Chan |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 285 |
Release | 2021-09-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1000461807 |
The development of a coherent, cohesive visual system of mathematics brought about a seminal shift in approaches towards abstract thinking in western Europe. Vernacular translations of Euclid’s Elements made these new and developing approaches available to a far broader readership than had previously been possible. Scholarship has explored the way that the language of mathematics leaked into the literary cultures of England and the Low Countries, but until now the role of visual metaphors of making and shaping in the establishment of mathematics as a practical tool has gone unexplored. Mathematics and the Craft of Thought sheds light on the remarkable culture shift surrounding the vernacular language translations of Euclid, and the geometrical imaginary that they sought to create. It shows how the visual language of early modern European geometry was constructed by borrowing and quoting from contemporary visual culture. The verbal and visual language of this form of mathematics, far from being simply immaterial, was designed to tantalize with material connotations. This book argues that, in a very real sense, practical geometry in this period was built out of craft metaphors.
Thinking Through Craft
Title | Thinking Through Craft PDF eBook |
Author | Glenn Adamson |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 2019-02-07 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1350092630 |
This book is an introduction to the way that artists working in all media think about craft. Workmanship is key to today's visual arts, when high 'production values' are becoming increasingly commonplace. Yet craft's centrality to contemporary art has received little serious attention from critics and historians. Dispensing with clichéd arguments that craft is art, Adamson persuasively makes a case for defining craft in a more nuanced fashion. The interesting thing about craft, he argues, is that it is perceived to be 'inferior' to art. The book consists of an overview of various aspects of this second-class identity - supplementarity, sensuality, skill, the pastoral, and the amateur. It also provides historical case studies analysing craft's role in a variety of disciplines, including architecture, design, contemporary art, and the crafts themselves.
Mathematics and the Craft of Thought in the Anglo-Dutch Renaissance
Title | Mathematics and the Craft of Thought in the Anglo-Dutch Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | Eleanor Chan |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2021-09-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780429326431 |
The development of a coherent, cohesive visual system of mathematics brought about a seminal shift in approaches towards abstract thinking in western Europe. Vernacular translations of Euclid's Elements made these new and developing approaches available to a far broader readership than had previously been possible. Scholarship has explored the way that the language of mathematics leaked into the literary cultures of England and the Low Countries, but until now the role of visual metaphors of making and shaping in the establishment of mathematics as a practical tool has gone unexplored. Mathematics and the Craft of Thought sheds light on the remarkable culture shift surrounding the vernacular language translations of Euclid, and the geometrical imaginary that they sought to create. It shows how the visual language of early modern European geometry was constructed by borrowing and quoting from contemporary visual culture. The verbal and visual language of this form of mathematics, far from being simply immaterial, was designed to tantalize with material connotations. This book argues that, in a very real sense, practical geometry in this period was built out of craft metaphors.