Kimberley Skelton
Biographic Data
| ID | 9533528 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kimberley Skelton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kimberley |
| FAMILY NAME | Skelton |
| SIGNATURE | SKELTON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | independent scholar |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Physicality of Early Modern Memory Spaces. Imagining Movement, Communicating Knowledge and Shaping Attitudes
Since antiquity, there had been close ties between imagined movement through built spaces and organising knowledge. Philosophers and rhetorical theorists had argued that one remembered most effectively by imagining a sequence of places, including built spaces, and storing images of what should be recalled in those places. Authors of medieval pilgrimage narratives had led their readers on tours of sacred sites beginning in the twelfth century. Fro…
Sensory Discipline and Habit in Early Modern Education
Increasingly across sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, schools paired training in behaviour with traditional instruction in reading and writing. Not only did the Council of Trent highlight the importance of training children in Christian comportment, but theological and philosophical tracts argued that the senses, rather than reason, governed human behaviour and so that habit guaranteed predictable actions. While connections among the sen…
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The Physicality of Early Modern Memory Spaces. Imagining Movement, Communicating Knowledge and Shaping Attitudes
Since antiquity, there had been close ties between imagined movement through built spaces and organising knowledge. Philosophers and rhetorical theorists had argued that one remembered most effectively by imagining a sequence of places, including built spaces, and storing images of what should be recalled in those places. Authors of medieval pilgrimage narratives had led their readers on tours of sacred sites beginning in the twelfth century. Fro…
Sensory Discipline and Habit in Early Modern Education
Increasingly across sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, schools paired training in behaviour with traditional instruction in reading and writing. Not only did the Council of Trent highlight the importance of training children in Christian comportment, but theological and philosophical tracts argued that the senses, rather than reason, governed human behaviour and so that habit guaranteed predictable actions. While connections among the sen…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Historical Influence and Diplomacy (2 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Communication (1 works) · Doctrine (1 works) · Early Modern Women Writers (1 works) · Habit (1 works)