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With the rapid development of the cognitive sciences and their importance to how we contemplate questions about the mind and society, recent research in the humanities has been characterised by a ‘cognitive turn’. For their part, the humanities play an important role in forming popular ideas of the human mind and in analysing the way cognitive, psychological and emotional phenomena are experienced in time and space. This collection aims to inspire medievalists and other scholars within the humanities to engage with the tools and investigative methodologies deriving from cognitive sciences. Contributors explore topics including medieval and modern philosophy of mind, the psychology of religion, the history of psychological medicine and the re-emergence of the body in cognition. What is the value of mapping how neurons fire when engaging with literature and art? How can we understand psychological stress as a historically specific phenomenon? What can medieval mystics teach us about contemplation and cognition?

Introduction: Cognitive Science and Medieval Studies
Juliana Dresvina and Victoria Blud
I Questions of method
1. How Modular Are Medieval Cognitive Theories? - José Filipe Silva
2. An Unrealized Conversation: Medieval Mysticism and the Common Core Thesis - Ralph Hood Jr
3. Questions of Value: Brain Science, Aesthetics, and Art in the Neurohumanities - Matthew Rampley
II Case studies: histories of neuroscience, psychology and mental illness
4. Neuroscience and the Dialectics of History - Daniel Lord Smail
5. Medieval English Understanding of Mental Illness: Terminology and Symptoms In Comparison to Modern Mental Health Conditions - Wendy Turner
6. Attachment Theory for Historians of Medieval Religion - Julie Dresvina
III Case studies: reading texts and minds
7. ‘A Knot So Subtle and So Mighty’: On Knitting, Academic Writing and Julian of Norwich - Godelinde Perk
8. Making Up a Mind: ‘4E’ Cognition and the Medieval Subject - Victoria Blud
9. Cognitive Approaches to Affective Poetics in Early English Literature - Antonina Harbus
IV Case studies: approaching art and artefacts
10. Medieval Art History and Neuroscience: An Introduction - Nadia Pawelchak
11. Spoons, Whorls, and Caroles: How Medieval Artifacts Can Help Keep Your Brain on its Toes - Jeff Rider
Afterword: The Medieval Brain and Modern Neuroscience - John Onians

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Publié par	University of Wales Press
Date de parution	01 novembre 2020
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EAN13	9781786836762
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RELIGION AND CULTURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Cognitive Sciences and Medieval Studies
Series Editors
Denis Renevey (Université de Lausanne)
Diane Watt (University of Surrey)
Editorial Board
Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of London)
Jean-Claude Schmitt (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Fiona Somerset (Duke University)
Christiania Whitehead (University of Warwick)
RELIGION AND CULTURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Cognitive Sciences and Medieval Studies An Introduction
edited by
JULIANA DRESVINA AND VICTORIA BLUD
© The Contributors, 2020
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Cover image : Hieronymus Bosch, Extraction of the Stone of Madness or The Cure of Folly (after 1494), oil on board © Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.
Cover design : Olwen Fowler
C ONTENTS
Series Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Cognitive Sciences and Medieval Studies
Victoria Blud and Juliana Dresvina
I QUESTIONS OF METHOD
1 How Modular Are Medieval Cognitive Theories? José Filipe Silva
2 An Unrealised Conversation: Medieval Mysticism and the Common Core Thesis Ralph W. Hood Jr
3 Questions of Value: Brain Science, Aesthetics and Art in the Neurohumanities Matthew Rampley
II CASE STUDIES: HISTORIES OF NEUROSCIENCE, PSYCHOLOGY AND MENTAL ILLNESS
4 Neuroscience and the Dialectics of History Daniel Lord Smail
5 Medieval English Understanding of Mental Illness and Parallel Diagnosis to Contemporary Neuroscience Wendy J. Turner
6 Attachment Theory for Historians of Medieval Religion: An Introduction Juliana Dresvina
III CASE STUDIES: READING TEXTS AND MINDS
7 ‘A Knot So Suttel and So Mighty’: On Knitting, Academic Writing and Julian of Norwich Godelinde Gertrude Perk
8 Making Up a Mind: ‘4E’ Cognition and the Medieval Subject Victoria Blud
9 Cognitive Approaches to Affective Poetics in Early English Literature Antonina Harbus
IV CASE STUDIES: APPROACHING ART AND ARTEFACTS
10 Medieval Art History and Neuroscience: An Introduction Nadia Pawelchak
11 Spoons, Whorls, and Caroles : How Medieval Artefacts Can Help Keep Your Brain on Its Toes Jeff Rider
Afterword: The Medieval Brain and Modern Neuroscience
John Onians
S ERIES E DITORS ’ P REFACE
Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages aims to explore the interface between medieval religion and culture, with as broad an understanding of those terms as possible. It puts to the forefront studies which engage with works that significantly contributed to the shaping of medieval culture. However, it also gives attention to studies dealing with works that reflect and highlight aspects of medieval culture that have been neglected in the past by scholars of the medieval disciplines. For example, devotional works and the practice they infer illuminate our understanding of the medieval subject and its culture in remarkable ways, while studies of the material space designed and inhabited by medieval subjects yield new evidence on the period and the people who shaped it and lived in it. In the larger field of religion and culture, we also want to explore further the roles played by women as authors, readers and owners of books, thereby defining them more precisely as actors in the cultural field. The series as a whole investigates the European Middle Ages, from c .500 to c .1500. Our aim is to explore medieval religion and culture with the tools belonging to such disciplines as, among others, art history, philosophy, theology, history, musicology, the history of medicine, and literature. In particular, we would like to promote interdisciplinary studies, as we believe strongly that our modern understanding of the term applies fascinatingly well to a cultural period marked by a less tight confinement and categorization of its disciplines than the modern period. However, our only criterion is academic excellence, with the belief that the use of a large diversity of critical tools and theoretical approaches enables a deeper understanding of medieval culture. We want the series to reflect this diversity, as we believe that, as a collection of outstanding contributions, it offers a more subtle representation of a period that is marked by paradoxes and contradictions and which necessarily reflects diversity and difference, however difficult it may sometimes have proved for medieval culture to accept these notions.
A CKNOWLEDGEMENTS
During the writing and editing of this volume we have been the grateful recipients of advice, feedback and responses from scholars both within and outside the ‘cognitive medievalism’ enclave. This volume is much the richer for the expertise and academic kindnesses of numerous colleagues and friends, and in particular we would like to thank: Alex Anokhina, Alan Costall, Rick Cooper, Laura Crombie, Greg Currie, Line Engh, Daniel Gerrard, Michael Moore, Sarah Salih, Debs Thorpe, Stephanie Trigg and Kathleen Walker-Meikle. We would also like to acknowledge the support of our respective institutions, the University of Oxford and the University of York, and particularly The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) for their help in securing images. Several chapters in this volume were also supported by individual grants, which are acknowledged separately. The two anonymous readers for University of Wales Press gave us some tremendously helpful insight and incisive suggestions, and we thank them for helping us make this a better volume. Finally, our heartfelt thanks go to Sian Chapman, Dafydd Jones, Bethan Phillips and all the team at University of Wales Press, to Heather Palomino for her careful copyediting, and especially to Sarah Lewis, our endlessly patient and supportive editor.
I LLUSTRATIONS
3.1: Michelangelo, drawing for the Medici tombs in the New Sacristy of San Lorenzo, Florence. Casa Buonarroti, Florence, A10r, c .1523.
10.1: Mirror Case with Falconing Party , ivory (1350–75). New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art (Acc. 41.100.160, gift of George Blumenthal).
11.1: C. Hayward Trevarthen (2014) DOR-235972: a medieval spoon.
11.2: The spoons in my kitchen.
11.3: S. White (2016) LVPL-2FFE5E: a medieval spindle whorl.
11.4: Wheel faucet handle.
11.5: London, British Library, Add MS 42130, f. 30v: drop whorl.
11.6: London, British Library, Stowe MS 17, f. 34r: spinning yarn with a cat.
11.7: London, British Library, Ms Royal 20A XVII, f. 9r: detail from Le Roman de la Rose , Love’s dance (‘La karole damours’).
11.8: Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 2568, f. 7r: miniature from Le Roman de la Rose.
11.9: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 195 7r. Photo: Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford: miniature from Le Roman de la Rose.
11.10: Paris, BnF, Fr 19137, 68r: miniature from Le Roman de la Rose .
11.11: Paris, BnF, Fr 19153, f. 7r: miniature from Le Roman de la Rose .
N OTES ON C ONTRIBUTORS
Victoria Blud is a research associate in English at the University of York. She is the author of The Unspeakable, Gender, and Sexuality in Medieval Literature (Boydell & Brewer, 2017) and her research focuses on studies of gender, transgressive speech, non/human bodies, materiality, emotion and cognition in the Middle Ages. Her most recent project (funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust) examined the afterlives of medieval mysticism in early modern convents in exile, looking particularly at learning communities and cognitive scaffolding.
Juliana Dresvina is a member of the History Faculty, University of Oxford, where she works on late-medieval devotion and on how people of the past strived to make sense of their lives in general and their unusual experiences in particular, using a variety of modern methods, such as attachment theory and fanfiction studies. She is the author of A Maid with a Dragon: The Cult of St Margaret of Antioch in Medieval England (Oxford University Press, 2016) and a forthcoming study of attachment and pre-modern history (Brill, 2021).
Antonina Harbus is Professor of English at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her current research on medieval and more recent English texts combines literary analysis with ideas and methods from cognitive science to investigate how the mind makes meaning from a text. Her most recent book is Cognitive Approaches to Old English Poetry (2012). Her wide-ranging research programme, supported by Australian Research Council Discovery Project funding, includes investigations into literature and emotion, ideas about the self and autobiographical memory in literature, metaphor and concepts of the mind, and narrative poetry.
Ralph W. Hood Jr is a professor of psychology, LeRoy A. Martin Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and UT Alumni Asso