The Mystical Science of the Soul – Medieval Cognition in Bernardino de Laredo`s…
The Mystical Science of the SoulMedieval Cognition in Bernardino De Laredo's Recollection Method\nAuthor(s): Jessica A. Boon\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781442644281, 978-1442644281\nSynopsis\nThe Mystical Science of the Soul explores the unexamined influence of medieval discourses of science and spirituality on recogimiento, the unique Spanish genre of recollection mysticism that served as the driving force behind the principal developments in Golden Age mysticism. 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.\n\n Boon proposes a fundamental rereading of the key recogimiento text Subida del Monte Sin (1535/1538), which melds the traditionally distinct spiritual techniques of moral self-examination, P.
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