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

Author
Boon, Jessica A. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
  • Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2012.
  • ©2012
Description
1 online resource (348 p.)

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Series
Toronto Iberic. [More in this series]
Summary note
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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed September 26, 2016).
Language note
English
Contents
  • 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.
Other format(s)
Issued also in print.
ISBN
  • 1-4426-9956-6
  • 1-4426-9955-8
OCLC
  • 829905886
  • 1013936686
  • 979954620
Doi
  • 10.3138/9781442699557
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