Cognitive ecologies and the history of remembering
Subtitle: religion, education and memory in early modern England
By: Evelyn B. Tribble, Nicholas Keene
Contributors: Keene, Nicholas
Series: Palgrave Macmillan memory studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780230276888
Subjects: Cognition and culture; Distributed cognition; HISTORY / Social History; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; Religious aspects; PHILOSOPHY / Religious; Religion; Memory; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval; History
Description: "This book unites research in philosophy and cognitive science with cultural history to re-examine memory in early modern religious practices. Offering an ecological approach to memory and culture, it argues that models derived from Extended Mind and Distributed Cognition can bridge the gap between individual and social models of memory"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction: Cognitive Ecologies: Distributed Cognition, Extended Mind, and Memory Studies; title: Attention, Coordination, and Memory in Pious Practice: Prayers and Catechisms; title: Sacred Space; title: Models of Mind and Memory in the Cognition of Religion: A Case Study; title: Cognitive Ecologies and Group Identity: Print and Song; title: Conclusion: New Models of Memory; title: Index.