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Conjunctions of Mind, Soul and Body from Plato to the Enlightenment

This book examines the nexus between the corporeal, emotional, spiritual and intellectual aspects of human life as represented in the writing of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Authors from different fields examine not only the question of the body and soul (or body and mind) but also how this...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Kambaskovic, Danijela. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind, 15
Subjects:
Philosophy of mind.
Philosophy of Mind.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9072-7
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Conjunction 1: Text and Self-Perception
  • Chapter 1. Body vs. Soul, Text vs. Interpretation in Michael Psellos; Graeme Miles
  • Chapter 2. Murdering Souls and Killing Bodies: Understanding Spiritual and Physical Sin in Late-Medieval English Devotional Works; Philippa Maddern
  • Chapter 3. ‘Adam, you are in a Labyrinth’: The First-Person Voice as The Nexus Between Body and Spirit in the Chronicle of Adam Usk; Alicia Marchant
  • Chapter 4. The Thin End of The Wedge: Self, Body and Soul in Rembrandt’s Kenwood Self-Portrait; Richard Read
  • Conjunction 2:  Emotion
  • Chapter 5. Grief and Desire, Body and Soul in Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Saint Macrina; Michael Champion
  • Chapter 6. ‘Variable Passions’: Shakespeare’s Mixed Emotions; Bob White
  • Chapter7. Subtle Persuasions: The Memory of Bodily Experience as a Rhetorical Device in Francis Bacon’s Parliamentary Speeches; Daniel Derrin
  • Chapter 8. Lessons in Music, Lessons in Love; Katherine Wallace
  • Conjunction 3: Sex
  • Chapter 9. Sex and Spirituality Among the Carolingians; William Schipper
  • Chapter 10. On the Bridling of the Body and Soul of Héloise, the ‘Chaste Whore’; Laura French Moran
  • Chapter 11. Keeping Body and Soul Together: Jean le Fevre and Sexuality; Karen Pratt
  • Chapter 12. Paul, Augustine, and Marital Sex in Guilielmus Estius’ Scriptural Commentaries; Wim François
  • Chapter 13. The Ageing of Love: The Waning of Love’s Power; Danijela Kambaskovic-Sawers
  • Chapter 14. Quaint Knowledge: A “Body-Mind” Pattern Across Shakespeare’s Career; Laurence Johnson
  • Conjunction 4: Material Souls
  • Chapter 15. Tears in Ancient and Early Modern Physiology: Petrus Petitus and Niels Stensen; Manfred Horstmanshoff
  • Chapter 16. Alchemy and The Body/Mind Question in The Work of John Donne; Michael Ovens
  • Chapter 17. ‘Among The Rest Of The Senses….Proued Most Sure’: Ethics of the Senses in Early Modern Europe; Danijela Kambaskovic-Sawers
  • Chapter 18. The Material Soul: Strategies for Naturalising the Soul in an Early Modern Epicurean Context; Charles T. Wolfe and Michaela van Esveld.

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