Cognitive Ecologies and the History of Remembering Religion, Education and Memory in Early Modern England

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.

Evelyn Tribble is Professor of English at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She is the author of Margins and Marginality: The Printed Page in Early Modern England (1993) and 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 is Research Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His repent 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.

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