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The mystical science of the soul : medieval cognition in Bernardino de Laredo's recollection method / Jessica A. Boon.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (c)2012.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 329 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442699557
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BV5077 .M978 2012
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Contents:
Part One: Rereading the Historical Context. 1 Renaissance Castilian Spirituality: An Embodied Christianity ; 2 Navigating an Inquisitorial Culture -- Part Two: A Scientific Close Reading. 3 Medical Bodies, Mystical Bodies ; 4 Mnemotechnical Mysticism ; 5 Optics, Pain, and Transformation into God -- Conclusion: Cognition in Recollected Union.
Subject: Building on recent research in medieval optics, physiology, and memory in relation to the devotional practices of the late Middle Ages, Jessica A. Boon probes the implications of an 'embodied soul' for the intellectual history of Spanish mysticism.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction BV5077.7 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn829905886

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Passion Spirituality and Cognitive Studies -- Part One: Rereading the Historical Context. 1 Renaissance Castilian Spirituality: An Embodied Christianity ; 2 Navigating an Inquisitorial Culture -- Part Two: A Scientific Close Reading. 3 Medical Bodies, Mystical Bodies ; 4 Mnemotechnical Mysticism ; 5 Optics, Pain, and Transformation into God -- Conclusion: Cognition in Recollected Union.

Building on recent research in medieval optics, physiology, and memory in relation to the devotional practices of the late Middle Ages, Jessica A. Boon probes the implications of an 'embodied soul' for the intellectual history of Spanish mysticism.

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