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.

Inhalt
Introduction: Cognitive Ecologies: Distributed Cognition, Extended Mind, and Memory Studies Attention, Coordination, and Memory in Pious Practice: Prayers and Catechisms Sacred Space Models of Mind and Memory in the Cognition of Religion: A Case Study Cognitive Ecologies and Group Identity: Print and Song Conclusion: New Models of Memory Index