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Author Boon, Jessica A., 1976- author.

Title The mystical science of the soul : medieval cognition in Bernardino de Laredo's recollection method / Jessica A. Boon
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 329 pages)
Series Toronto Iberic
Toronto Iberic.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Laredo, Bernardino de, 1482-1545? -- Influence
SUBJECT Laredo, Bernardino de, 1482-1545?
Laredo, Bernardino de, 1482-1545? fast
Subject Mysticism -- Spain -- Castile -- History -- To 1500
Cognition -- History -- To 1500
Human body -- Religious aspects.
Science, Medieval.
Spirituality -- Spain -- Castile -- History -- To 1500
Recollection (Theology)
Theological anthropology.
Cognition.
Spirituality.
Mysticism -- history
Cognition
Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical
Spirituality
History, 16th Century
cognition.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
RELIGION -- Christian Life -- General.
Cognition
Human body -- Religious aspects
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Mysticism
Recollection (Theology)
Science, Medieval
Spirituality
Theological anthropology
Spiritualiteit.
Christendom.
SUBJECT Spain
Subject Spain -- Castile
Castilië.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1442699558
9781442699557