The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200: 34 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 34) - Softcover

Carruthers, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521795419 ISBN 13: 9780521795418

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Synopsis

An examination of monastic meditation.

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Review:

'... a wide-ranging text ... illuminating for scholars of classical and medieval history, art history, and literature, as well as the more obvious disciplines of theology and rhetoric.' Natalie Grinnell, Envoi

'... Carruthers puts forward at a quick pace, a wealth of intuitions and ideas about the function of pictures which are liable to stimulate further research in the fields both of classics and of medieval studies.' Classical World

'This is a vigorous and learned book.' David Griffith, Expository Times

'... The Craft of Thought is an important contribution to our understanding of memory, the medieval world, and how our image of the world today both converges and diverges from our past. By showing how medieval monastic meditation influences literature, art, and architecture ... [the book] underscores the importance of memory in bringing these disparate disciplines together as a unitary whole. Remarkable and learned ... [this] is a book to be read and recollected again and again.' Lee Trepanier, VoegelinView (www.voegelinview.com)

Book Description:

The Craft of Thought, first published in 1998, examines medieval monastic meditation as a discipline for making thoughts, and discusses its influence on literature, art, and architecture, deriving examples from a variety of late antique and medieval sources, with excursions into modern architectural memorials.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0521795419
• ISBN 13: 9780521795418
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 456