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Paperback The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400 1200 Book

ISBN: 0521795419

ISBN13: 9780521795418

The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400 1200

(Book #34 in the Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series)

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A companion to Mary Carruthers' earlier study of memory in medieval culture, The Book of Memory, this book, The Craft of Thought, 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. The study emphasizes meditation as an act of literary composition...

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