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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.

Publication Info. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 329 pages).
text file PDF
Series Toronto Iberic.
Toronto Iberic.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Laredo, Bernardino de, 1482-1545? -- Influence.
Laredo, Bernardino de, 1482-1545?
Laredo, Bernardino de, 1482-1545?
Mysticism -- Spain -- Castile -- History -- To 1500.
Mysticism.
Spain -- Castile.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Cognition -- History -- To 1500.
Cognition.
Human body -- Religious aspects.
Human body -- Religious aspects.
Science, Medieval.
Science, Medieval.
Spirituality -- Spain -- Castile -- History -- To 1500.
Spirituality.
Recollection (Theology)
Recollection (Theology)
Theological anthropology.
Theological anthropology.
Spain.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Boon, Jessica A., 1976- Mystical science of the soul. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2012 9781442644281 (OCoLC)799130152
ISBN 1442699558 (electronic book)
9781442699557 (electronic book)
9781442644281
1442644281
Standard No. 10.3138/9781442699557