文档介绍：Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition
in the Middle Ages
Imagination, Meditation,
and Cognition
in the Middle Ages
M I C H E L L E K A R N E S
The University of Chicago Press
Chicago and London
Michelle Karnes is assistant professor of English at Stanford University.
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
© 2011 by The University of Chicago
All rights reserved. Published 2011
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ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42531-3 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0-226-42531-2 (cloth)
The University of Chicago Press gratefully acknowledges the generous support
of the Department of English at Stanford University toward the publication of
this book.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Karnes, Michelle.
â Imagination, meditation, and cognition in the middle ages / Michelle Karnes.
ââ p. cm.
â Includes bibliographical references and index.
â ISBN-13: 978-0-226-42531-3 (cloth: alkaline paper)
â ISBN-10: 0-226-42531-2 (cloth: alkaline paper)
1. Imagination (Philosophy).â 2. Philosophy, Medieval.â 3. Imagination in
literature.â 4. Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)—History
and criticism.â 5. Devotional literature, English (Middle)—History and
criticism.â 6. Meditationes vitae Christi.â 7. Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal,
ca. 1217–1274—Criticism and interpretation.â 8. Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal,
ca. 1217–1274. Itinerarium mentis in Deum.â 9. Jacobus, Mediolanensis,
13th cent. Stimulus amoris.â 10. Langland, William, 1330?–1400? Piers
Plowman.â 11. Love, Nicholas, fl. 1410. Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu
Christi.â I. Title.
â 2011
â 128'.3—dc22
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a This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO -1992
(Permanence of Paper).
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C O N T E N T S
Acknowledgments / ix
Abbreviations / xi
To the Reader / xiii
Introduction / 1
O N E /