Lines of Thought
Subtitle: Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780226743080
Copyright date: 2020
Notes: 4 color plates, 27 halftones, 86 line drawings, 3 tables
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I; title: 1 The Form: Chronological, Linguistic, and Cognitive Perspectives; title: 1.1 Form: A Chronological Perspective; title: 1.2 Form: A Linguistic Perspective; title: 1.3 Form: A Cognitive Perspective; title: 2 The Habit: On What, Where, Who, When, and How Often; title: 2.1 Diagramming as a Form of Marginal Annotation; title: 2.2 Parasitic, Embedded, and Tapestry Forms; title: 2.3 Beyond the Classroom: French and Hebrew; title: 2.4 Conclusion; title: Part II; title: 3 Structures of Concepts: Distinctions; title: 3.1 Natural Philosophy, Metaphysics, Ethics; title: 3.2 Biblical Distinctions; title: 3.3 Canon and Civil Law; title: 3.4 Medicine; title: 3.5 Conclusion; title: 4 Structures of Language; title: 4.1 Verse and Rhyme; title: 4.2 Letter Writing (Ars Dictaminis); title: 4.3 Grammar; title: 5 Structure of Texts; title: 5.1 Orientation and Composition: Theological Questions; title: 5.2 Analysis: Argument; title: 5.3 Analysis: Biblical Narrative; title: 5.4 What HT Diagramming Tells Us about the Scholastic Perception of Texts: Authors as Architects, Texts as Wisely Made Constructions; title: 5.5 Coda: Back to the Future—Parallels to the Divisio Textus in Twentieth-Century Narrative Analyses; title: Appendix: Latin and English Surface Text of the Book of Job Parsed and Numbered (Translation Follows the English Standard Version); title: Epilogue; title: Acknowledgments; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index