IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1337: Learning at the Boundary of Body and Mind: Embodied Knowledge in Late Medieval Manuals
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
| Organisers: | Carlos Iglesias Crespo, King's College / Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics, University of Cambridge Martin Jurgensen, Nationalmuseet København |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Lucie Doležalová, Faculty of Humanities |
| Paper 1337-a | The Limits of Grammar: The Body as a Learning Aid in 15th-Century Treatises (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Mentalities, Rhetoric |
| Paper 1337-b | Towards Embodied Mnemonics: Body and Cognition in Late Medieval Arts of Memory (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Philosophy, Rhetoric, Science |
| Paper 1337-c | The Hand to the Sword Like the Mind to the Word: Learning from Late Medieval Fight Books (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Military History, Philosophy |
| Abstract | This session aims to chart the liminal space of body and mind in 15th-century manuals of grammar, rhetoric, and military training. Both theoretical and practical, these texts were an indispensable part of a wide variety of learning processes throughout the late Middle Ages, where the body was often a cornerstone of the acquisition of knowledge and virtue, albeit one that remains largely unexplored in the scholarship. Hence, this session will highlight the body's role as the mind's boundary during the 1400s through a multidisciplinary dialogue between the latest developments in the History of Ideas, Rhetorical Studies, and Cognitive Literary Studies. |