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| Introduction: Textual Experiments, Thinking with Fiction |
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Thought Experiments with Unbelief in the Long Middle Ages |
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21 | (20) |
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Can Thought Experiments Backfire? Avicenna's Flying Man, Self-Knowledge, and the Experience of Allegory in Deguileville's Pelerinage de vie humaine |
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41 | (30) |
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Piers Plowman and God's Thought Experiment |
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71 | (28) |
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The Conception of the World in Placides e Timeo |
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99 | (22) |
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`As I kan now remembre': Memory and Making in The House of Fame |
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121 | (20) |
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Affective Meditation in Hand Mnemonics and Devotional Texts, from Amor Dei to Fear of Judgement |
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141 | (32) |
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Bonaventure's Thought Experiment: The Use of Synderesis in the Itinerarium mentis in Deum, the Ineffability Topos, and Francis's Stigmata |
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173 | (24) |
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The Art of Rambling: Errant Thoughts and Entangled Passions in Petrarch's `The Ascent of Mont Ventoux' (Familiares IV, 1) and RVF 129 |
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197 | (26) |
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Desire for the Good: Jean de Meun, Boethius, and the `homme devise en deuz' |
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223 | (28) |
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Interpretation all the Way Down: Fabliaux and Medieval Exegesis |
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251 | (22) |
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Queer Arts of Failure in Alan of Lille and Hue of Rotelande |
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273 | (24) |
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Ethice Subponitur? The Imaginative Syllogism and the Idea of the Poetic |
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297 | (32) |
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| Index |
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