Meditation, Invention and Designing Thought in the Augustinian Middle Ages - Couverture rigide

Carruthers, Mary J

 
9781914967221: Meditation, Invention and Designing Thought in the Augustinian Middle Ages
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1914967224 ISBN 13 : 9781914967221
Editeur : Boydell & Brewer, 2025

Synopsis

A fresh perspective on how early scholars perceived the cosmos and the nature of knowledge through a tour-de-force study of the central role geometry played in medieval creativity.

Geometry, rhetoric and creativity were intricately linked in medieval thought. Early thinkers integrated mathematical and linguistic frameworks in their attempts to understand both divine and human creation with geometry providing the means through which these scholars tackled everything from theological speculation to the medieval art of "Invention".

Through detailed explorations of the works of figures such as Augustine, Calcidius and Cassiodorus, this book reveals how medieval thinkers conceptualized beginnings-not as fixed points but as unfolding processes with metaphors of weaving, mapping and journeying reflecting how these scholars navigated the act of creation, whether that terrestrial or cosmological.

Engaging with philosophy, theology and intellectual history, this work offers fresh insights into how medieval minds reconciled the limits of human understanding with the vast complexity of the universe. In doing so, it challenges modern assumptions about the separation of mathematical and linguistic thinking, demonstrating the dynamic, process-oriented nature of medieval ideas about the mind and the procedures of thinking.

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À propos de l?auteur

MARY CARRUTHERS is Remarque Professor Emeritus of Literature, New York University and Quondam Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford. A world-renowned scholar, she has published numerous works on medieval ideas of the mind.

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Éditeur
Boydell & Brewer
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1914967224
ISBN 13 
9781914967221
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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