Institute for Medieval Studies

IMC 2022 Session

Session	1337
Title	Learning at the Boundary of Body and Mind: Embodied Knowledge in Late Medieval Manuals
Date/Time	Wednesday 6 July 2022: 16.30-18.00

Organiser	Lucia Delaini, Department of Communication, Northwestern University, Illinois
	Carlos Iglesias Crespo, King's College / Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics, University of Cambridge

Moderator/Chair	Lucie Doležalová, Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Karlova, Praha

Paper 1337-a	The Limits of Grammar: The Body as a Learning Aid in 15th-Century Treatises (Language: English) Marta Ramos Grané, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Extremadura / Classe di Lettere e Filosofia, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Index Terms: Education; Mentalities; Rhetoric
Paper 1337-b	Towards Embodied Mnemonics: Body and Cognition in Late Medieval Arts of Memory (Language: English) Lucia Delaini, Department of Communication, Northwestern University, Illinois Carlos Iglesias Crespo, King's College / Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics, University of Cambridge Index Terms: Mentalities; Philosophy; Rhetoric; Science
Paper 1337-c	The Hand to the Sword Like the Mind to the Word: Learning from Late Medieval Fight Books (Language: English) Hélène Leblanc, Centre d'Analyse Culturelle de la Première Modernité, Université catholique de Louvain Index Terms: Education; Military History; Philosophy

Abstract	This session aims to chart the liminal space of body and mind in 15th-century manuals of grammar, rhetoric, and military training. Both theoretical and practical, these texts were an indispensable part of a wide variety of learning processes throughout the late Middle Ages, where the body was often a cornerstone of the acquisition of knowledge and virtue, albeit one that remains largely unexplored in the scholarship. Hence, this session will highlight the body's role as the mind's boundary during the 1400s through a multidisciplinary dialogue between the latest developments in the History of Ideas, Rhetorical Studies, and Cognitive Literary Studies.