Resumen de Making memories in a Medieval miscellany
The manuscripts of the twelfth-century Regensburg-Prüfening monasteries of Saint Emmeram and Saint George are notable for the complex iconography of their schematic drawings. Taking Mary Carruthers' The Craft of Thought as a point of departure, this essay investigates these manuscripts as sites for monastic meditatio, cogitation on textual and visual material to generate further contemplation. The case of Clm. 13002 (Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) is particulary instructive because it allows us to discern the process through which the Benedictine monks executed an entire gathering of pictures to complement an earlier dictionary-encyclopedia miscellany. This process tells us as much about the ruminative activities of the monks as it does about the meaning of the pictures, which were produced by means of schematic line drawings to aid their mnemonic function as "empty" locations for inventive deliberation.
