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Klappentext Reveals diverse notions of distributed cognition in the Medieval and Renaissance worlds This collection brings together 14 essays by international specialists in Medieval and Renaissance culture and provides a general and a period-specific introduction to distributed cognition and the cognitive humanities. The essays revitalise our reading of Medieval and Renaissance works in the fields of law, history, drama, literature, art, music, philosophy, science and medicine, by bringing to bear recent insights in cognitive science and philosophy of mind on the ways in which cognition is distributed across brain, body and world. As many of the texts and practices have influenced later Western European society and culture, this book reveals vital stages in the historical development of our attempts to comprehend and optimise the distributed nature of cognition. Miranda Anderson is an Anniversary Fellow at the University of Stirling and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Michael Wheeler is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling. Zusammenfassung . This collection explores resonances between modern models of distributed cognition and medieval and renaissance culture. It gathers a wide range of essays on the ways on which cognition is conceived of as distributed across brain! body and the world in medieval and Renaissance science! medicine! technology! philosophy! religion! art! music literature and drama. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Series Introduction: Distributed Cognition and the HumanitiesMiranda Anderson, Michael Wheeler and Mark Sprevak2. Introduction: Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance StudiesMiranda Anderson3. Medieval Icelandic Legal Treatises as Tools for External Scaffolding of Legal Cognition Werner Schäfke 4. Horse-Riding Storytellers and Distributed Cognition in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Guillemette Bolens 5. Cognitive Ecology and the Idea of Nation in Late-Medieval Scotland: The Flyting of William Dunbar and Walter KennedyElizabeth Elliott6. The Mead of Poetry: Old Norse Poetry as a Mind-Altering SubstanceHannah Burrows7. Enculturated, Embodied, Social: Medieval Drama and Cognitive IntegrationClare Wright8. Ben Jonson and the Limits of Distributed CognitionRaphael Lyne9. Masked Interaction: The Case for an Enactive View of Commedia dellArte (and the Italian Renaissance)Jan Söffner10. Thinking with the Hand: The Practice of Drawing in Renaissance ItalyCynthia Houng11. The Medieval (Music) Book: A Multimodal Cognitive ArtefactKate Maxwell 12. Distributed Cognition, Improvisation and the Performing Arts in Early Modern EuropeEvelyn Tribble and Julie E. Cumming13. Pierced with Passion: Brains, Bodies and Worlds in Early Modern TextsDaniel T. Lochman14. Metaphors They Lived By: The Language of Early Modern IntersubjectivityHannah Chapelle Wojciehowski15. Le Sigh: Enactive and Psychoanalytic Insights into Medieval and Renaissance Paralanguage L. O. Aranye Fradenburg 16. 'The Adding of Artificial Organs to the Natural': Extended and Distributed Cognition in Robert Hooke's MethodologyPieter PresentNotes on ContributorsBibliography...
