Serial Thinking, from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment
Responsables : Anne-Marie De Gendt, Alicia C. Montoya, with the support of Philiep BossierIn order to organize and render comprehensible the world around them, medieval men and women developed a clear predilection for serial thinking. These series included the four elements, the five senses, the seven vices and virtues, and many others. While these mental categories, thus organized into list form, allowed them to structure thought, the numbers in these series also had a symbolic value, explaining perceived correspondences between the microcosm and the macrocosm. Various networks of...
