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.

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EVELYN TRIBBLE Professor of English at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is the co-author of Writing Material: Readings from Plato to the Digital Age (2003) and has contributed chapters to a number of edited volumes, as well as publishing her work in journals such as Shakespeare Bulletin, Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Survey and more recently Pragmatics and Cognition.

NICHOLAS KEENE Research Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His recent publications include Scripture and Scholarship in Early Modern England (co-edited with Ariel Hessayon, 2006), and he is currently writing a study of biblical scholarship and print culture in early Enlightenment England.

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Book Title: Cognitive Ecologies and the History of Remembering
Book Subtitle: Religion, Education and Memory in Early Modern England
Editors: Evelyn B. Tribble, Nicholas Keene
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230299498
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-27688-8Published: 05 April 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-32539-9Published: 01 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-29949-8Published: 05 April 2011
Series ISSN: 2634-6257
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6265
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 183
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, History of Medieval Europe, Cultural History, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: Cognitive Ecologies, Distributed Cognition, Extended Mind and Memory Studies

Attention, Coordination and Memory in Pious Practice: Prayer and Catechism

Sacred Space: The Reconfiguring of Cognitive Ecologies in the Parish Church

Cognitive Ecologies and Group Identity: Print and Song

Models of Mind and Memory in the Cognition of Religion: A Case Study in Early Quakerism

Conclusion: Educational Systems and Mnemonic Priorities

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