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

by Mary Carruthers

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521795419
• ISBN13: 9780521795418
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"