Schemata as Maps and Editing Tools in Thirteenth-Century Scholasticism
Ayelet Even-Ezra
The essay introduces the reader to thirteenth-century horizontal tree diagrams representing structure of scholastic questions. Analysis in two manuscripts from early Franciscan school Paris is enriched with notions cognitive studies, order use these drawings as a lens into strategies and perception texts. While previous scholarship about medieval has focused on mnemonic pedagogical functions, I argue that were used road maps editing tools for both navigating constructing increasingly sophisticated forms writing. This application diagrammatic mode text structure, suggest, reflected encouraged new texts modular, spatial, hierarchical entities.
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