Image, Imagination, and Cognition: Medieval and Early Modern Theory and Practice
- ISBN-10
- 9004365745
- ISBN-13
- 9789004365742
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 340
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-06-28
- Publisher
- BRILL
Description
Multiple accounts of how theories of human psychology and of image-making influenced each other in a decisive period in the history of philosophy and art.
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