Horse-Riding Storytellers and Distributed Cognition in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales."

Author / Editor
Bolens, Guillemette.

Title
Horse-Riding Storytellers and Distributed Cognition in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales."

Published
Miranda Anderson and Michael Wheeler, eds. Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019), pp. 66–85.

Description
Exemplifies how the interactive and "enactive" process of reading details of the frame narrative of CT (GP and links between tales) prompts cognition in ways that are analogous to the "distributed cognition" of human sensorimotor operations. Focuses on how the riding styles of individual pilgrims (Knight, Yeoman, Squire, Monk, Summoner, and Host) and the ways they carry artifacts suggest movement, the perception of which is the fundamental operation of the brain.

Contributor
Anderson, Miranda, ed.
Wheeler, Michael, ed.

Alternative Title
Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Canterbury Tales--General
Style and Versification