1. Series Introduction: Distributed Cognition and the Humanities, Miranda Anderson, Michael Wheeler and Mark Sprevak; 2. Introduction: Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Miranda Anderson; 3. Medieval Icelandic Legal Treatises as Tools for External Scaffolding of Legal Cognition, Werner Schäfke; 4. Horse-Riding Storytellers and Distributed Cognition in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Guillemette Bolens; 5. Cognitive Ecology and the Idea of Nation in Late-Medieval Scotland: The Flyting of William Dunbar and Walter Kennedy, Elizabeth Elliott; 6. The Mead of Poetry: Old Norse Poetry as a Mind-Altering Substance, Hannah Burrows; 7. Enculturated, Embodied, Social: Medieval Drama and Cognitive Integration, Clare Wright; 8. Ben Jonson and the Limits of Distributed Cognition, Raphael Lyne; 9. Masked Interaction: The Case for an Enactive View of Commedia dell’Arte (and the Italian Renaissance), Jan Söffner; 10. Thinking with the Hand: The Practice of Drawing in Renaissance Italy, Cynthia Houng; 11. The Medieval (Music) Book: A Multimodal Cognitive Artefact, Kate Maxwell; 12. Distributed Cognition, Improvisation and the Performing Arts in Early Modern Europe, Julie E. Cumming and Evelyn Tribble; 13. Pierced with Passion: Brains, Bodies and Worlds in Early Modern Texts, Daniel T. Lochman; 14. Metaphors They Lived By: The Language of Early Modern Intersubjectivity
Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski; 15. ‘Le Sigh’: Enactive and Psychoanalytic Insights into Medieval and Renaissance Paralanguage
L. O. Aranye Fradenburg Joy; 16. ‘The adding of artificial organs to the natural’: Extended and Distributed Cognition in Robert Hooke’s Methodology, Pieter Present; Notes on contributors; Bibliography.