Imagination

An exploration of the history of imagination from antiquity to the Renaissance. The shifting definitions of imagination and its ambiguous relations with memory and reason are synthesised within an historical context which spans many cultures.

John Cocking, Penelope Murray

1: The Greek Rationalists; 2: Imagination begins to be recognized; 3: The Neoplatonists; 4: Neoplatonism in Christian guise; 5: Holy images; 6: Imagination in Islam *; 7: The Western Middle Ages; 8: Ficino; 9: Ideas about poetry and painting in the Italian Renaissance; 10: The French Renaissance and after 1; Epilogue