Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword: Historicizing cognitive approaches to Cervantes / Howard Mancing -- Introduction: A cognitive-historicist approach to Cervantes's work / Isabel Ja�en and Julien J. Simon -- Views of the mind in early modern Spain. Spanish brain science and philosophy of mind in the time of Cervantes : three seminal thinkers / Antonio Mart�in Araguz -- Feeling, thinking, and remembering in humans and brutes. Emotion and human development in Cervantes's Don Quijote : the case of Sancho Panza / Isabel Ja�en -- Aging, emotion, and cognition : El viejo zeloso and early modern thought / Elena Carrera -- Human thinking about thinking animals in the early modern Spanish and Spanish American world / Steven Wagschal -- Wit, imagination, and the goat : the untrodden paths of literary creation in Cervantes's Don Quijote and Huarte's Examen de ingenios / Christine Orobitg -- Cervantes and the mother of the muses : views of memory in early modern Spain / Julia Dom�inguez -- Altered minds : causes, effects, and remedies. Melancholic consciousness : Cervantes's contribution to early modern views of melancholy and the emergence of the fictional mind / Isabel Ja�en and Julien J. Simon -- Mind-altering agents in Cervantes's work : regarding his sources on pharmacology / Francisco L�opez-Mu�noz and Cecilio �Alamo -- Don Quijote and Cervantes's knowledge of neurological disorders / Jos�e-Alberto Palma, Ferm�in Palma, and Julien J. Simon.

"This book explores the work of Cervantes in relation to the ideas about the mind that circulated in early modern Europe and were propelled by thinkers such as Juan Luis Vives, Juan Huarte de San Juan, Oliva Sabuco, Andr�es Laguna, Andr�es Vel�asquez, Marsilio Ficino, G�omez Pereira, and others"--