Juliana Dresvina is a member of the History Faculty at the University of Oxford, teaching on late-medieval devotion and history of mentality to Middlebury College-CMRS Oxford Humanities Program.Victoria Blud is a research associate in the Department of English and Related Literatures at the University of York, specialising in studies of gender, transgressive speech, emotion, cognition, and ideas about the body.

• Introduction: Cognitive Science and Medieval StudiesJuliana Dresvina and Victoria BludI Questions of method1. How Modular Are Medieval Cognitive Theories? - Jose Filipe Silva2. An Unrealized Conversation: Medieval Mysticism and the Common Core Thesis - Ralph Hood Jr3. Questions of Value: Brain Science, Aesthetics, and Art in the Neurohumanities - Matthew RampleyII Case studies: histories of neuroscience, psychology and mental illness4. Neuroscience and the Dialectics of History - Daniel Lord Smail5. Medieval English Understanding of Mental Illness: Terminology and Symptoms In Comparison to Modern Mental Health Conditions - Wendy Turner6. Attachment Theory for Historians of Medieval Religion - Julie DresvinaIII Case studies: reading texts and minds7. 'A Knot So Subtle and So Mighty': On Knitting, Academic Writing and Julian of Norwich - Godelinde Perk8. Making Up a Mind: '4E' Cognition and the Medieval Subject - Victoria Blud9. Cognitive Approaches to Affective Poetics in Early English Literature - Antonina HarbusIV Case studies: approaching art and artefacts 10. Medieval Art History and Neuroscience: An Introduction - Nadia Pawelchak11. Spoons, Whorls, and Caroles: How Medieval Artifacts Can Help Keep Your Brain on its Toes - Jeff RiderAfterword: The Medieval Brain and Modern Neuroscience - John Onians

“This collection strikes out boldly: refusing to prioritise the sciences as automatically primary in epistemological or methodological terms; exposing the central concept of neuromedievalism to critique; and inviting contributors and readers alike to consider the bases, possibilities, and limits of its capacity to enlighten. The result is enlivening. This fascinating collection offers no simple blueprint for applying cognitive sciences to medieval questions (or vice versa) but rather encourages us to consider what value might be added to each by bringing the two together. There will be some dead ends, it acknowledges, but the potential for mutual enrichment is real and exciting.”

Juliana Dresvina is a member of the History Faculty at the University of Oxford, teaching on late-medieval devotion and history of mentality to Middlebury College-CMRS Oxford Humanities Program.Victoria Blud is a research associate in the Department of English and Related Literatures at the University of York, specialising in studies of gender, transgressive speech, emotion, cognition, and ideas about the body.

• Introduction: Cognitive Science and Medieval StudiesJuliana Dresvina and Victoria BludI Questions of method1. How Modular Are Medieval Cognitive Theories? - Jose Filipe Silva2. An Unrealized Conversation: Medieval Mysticism and the Common Core Thesis - Ralph Hood Jr3. Questions of Value: Brain Science, Aesthetics, and Art in the Neurohumanities - Matthew RampleyII Case studies: histories of neuroscience, psychology and mental illness4. Neuroscience and the Dialectics of History - Daniel Lord Smail5. Medieval English Understanding of Mental Illness: Terminology and Symptoms In Comparison to Modern Mental Health Conditions - Wendy Turner6. Attachment Theory for Historians of Medieval Religion - Julie DresvinaIII Case studies: reading texts and minds7. 'A Knot So Subtle and So Mighty': On Knitting, Academic Writing and Julian of Norwich - Godelinde Perk8. Making Up a Mind: '4E' Cognition and the Medieval Subject - Victoria Blud9. Cognitive Approaches to Affective Poetics in Early English Literature - Antonina HarbusIV Case studies: approaching art and artefacts 10. Medieval Art History and Neuroscience: An Introduction - Nadia Pawelchak11. Spoons, Whorls, and Caroles: How Medieval Artifacts Can Help Keep Your Brain on its Toes - Jeff RiderAfterword: The Medieval Brain and Modern Neuroscience - John Onians

“This collection strikes out boldly: refusing to prioritise the sciences as automatically primary in epistemological or methodological terms; exposing the central concept of neuromedievalism to critique; and inviting contributors and readers alike to consider the bases, possibilities, and limits of its capacity to enlighten. The result is enlivening. This fascinating collection offers no simple blueprint for applying cognitive sciences to medieval questions (or vice versa) but rather encourages us to consider what value might be added to each by bringing the two together. There will be some dead ends, it acknowledges, but the potential for mutual enrichment is real and exciting.”

Juliana Dresvina is a member of the History Faculty at the University of Oxford, teaching on late-medieval devotion and history of mentality to Middlebury College-CMRS Oxford Humanities Program.Victoria Blud is a research associate in the Department of English and Related Literatures at the University of York, specialising in studies of gender, transgressive speech, emotion, cognition, and ideas about the body.

• Introduction: Cognitive Science and Medieval StudiesJuliana Dresvina and Victoria BludI Questions of method1. How Modular Are Medieval Cognitive Theories? - Jose Filipe Silva2. An Unrealized Conversation: Medieval Mysticism and the Common Core Thesis - Ralph Hood Jr3. Questions of Value: Brain Science, Aesthetics, and Art in the Neurohumanities - Matthew RampleyII Case studies: histories of neuroscience, psychology and mental illness4. Neuroscience and the Dialectics of History - Daniel Lord Smail5. Medieval English Understanding of Mental Illness: Terminology and Symptoms In Comparison to Modern Mental Health Conditions - Wendy Turner6. Attachment Theory for Historians of Medieval Religion - Julie DresvinaIII Case studies: reading texts and minds7. 'A Knot So Subtle and So Mighty': On Knitting, Academic Writing and Julian of Norwich - Godelinde Perk8. Making Up a Mind: '4E' Cognition and the Medieval Subject - Victoria Blud9. Cognitive Approaches to Affective Poetics in Early English Literature - Antonina HarbusIV Case studies: approaching art and artefacts 10. Medieval Art History and Neuroscience: An Introduction - Nadia Pawelchak11. Spoons, Whorls, and Caroles: How Medieval Artifacts Can Help Keep Your Brain on its Toes - Jeff RiderAfterword: The Medieval Brain and Modern Neuroscience - John Onians

“This collection strikes out boldly: refusing to prioritise the sciences as automatically primary in epistemological or methodological terms; exposing the central concept of neuromedievalism to critique; and inviting contributors and readers alike to consider the bases, possibilities, and limits of its capacity to enlighten. The result is enlivening. This fascinating collection offers no simple blueprint for applying cognitive sciences to medieval questions (or vice versa) but rather encourages us to consider what value might be added to each by bringing the two together. There will be some dead ends, it acknowledges, but the potential for mutual enrichment is real and exciting.”