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

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Boon, Jessica A., 1976-
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Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2012]
Copyright Date
©2012
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1 online resource (xv, 329 pages).
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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.
Summary
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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ISBN
1442699558 (electronic bk.)
9781442699557 (electronic bk.)
9781442644281
1442644281
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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