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The Book of Memory : A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (540 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781107703537
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 153.1/20902
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Contents:
Cover -- The Book of Memory -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface to the second edition -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Models for the memory -- TABULA MEMORIAE -- THESAURUS SAPIENTIAE -- CHAPTER 2 Descriptions of the neuropsychology of memory -- THE MEMORY-IMAGE -- Brain physiology and the formation of memories -- Thomas Aquinas: a seal impressed in wax -- Dream-images and memory-images -- RECOLLECTION -- Recollection as investigation -- Memory and the habits of virtue -- THE ARCHITECTURAL MNEMONIC -- CHAPTER 3 Elementary memory design -- THE NUMERICAL GRID -- Learning by heart: Hugh of St. Victor on memorizing the Psalms -- Division and composition -- ''Memoria rerum'' -- Formatting the page of memory -- Orality, literacy, memory, and citation of texts -- Robert of Basevorn's quoting schemes -- THE ALPHABET AND KEY-WORD SYSTEM -- Notes and places -- Writing and memory -- Indices and chains -- CHAPTER 4 The arts of memory -- JOHN OF GARLAND (C. 1230) AND THE BESTIARY -- THOMAS BRADWARDINE, ON ACQUIRING A TRAINED MEMORY (C. 1335) -- ALBERTUS MAGNUS, ARISTOTLE, AND THE RHETORICA AD HERENNIUM -- TEACHING AN ART OF MEMORY IN UNIVERSITIES -- MEMORY AND DIALECTIC IN THE VERBAL ARTS -- CHAPTER 5 Memory and the ethics of reading -- COMPOSITION AS GATHERING (OCKHAM, RICHARD DE BURY, AND PETRARCH) -- MEMORY, DIGESTION, AND RUMINATION IN MONASTIC READING -- TWO WAYS OF READING -- FLOWERS OF READING I: HELOISE -- FLOWERS OF READING II: FRANCESCA -- CHAPTER 6 Memory and authority -- THE INTENTION OF THE WORK -- CONSIDER THE BEES -- COMPOSING A WORK: INVENTION -- COLLECTING AND RECOLLECTING -- THE DICTAMEN -- TWO MEDIEVAL AUTHORS AT WORK -- GLOSSING: MAKING A TEXT AN AUTHOR -- CHAPTER 7 Memory and the book -- ''PAINTURE'' AND ''PAROLE'' -- Imagines rerum in psalters for study -- MENTAL PICTURES.
Hugh of St. Victor: the construction of Noah's Ark -- Hugh de Fouilloy: The Dove and the Hawk -- 'DISTINGUISHING' THE BOOK -- Marginal notes -- Diagrams -- Appendix A -- HUGH OF ST. VICTOR: ''THE THREE BEST MEMORY-AIDS FOR LEARNING HISTORY'' -- Appendix B -- ALBERTUS MAGNUS: DE BONO, TRACTATUS IV, QUAESTIO II ''DE PARTIBUS PRUDENTIAE'' -- ARTICLE ONE: WHAT MEMORIA MIGHT BE -- ARTICLE TWO: CONCERNING THE ART OF MEMORY -- Appendix C -- THOMAS BRADWARDINE: ''ON ACQUIRING A TRAINED MEMORY'' -- Notes -- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- APPENDIX A -- APPENDIX B -- APPENDIX C -- Bibliography -- I REFERENCE WORKS -- II CATALOGUES OF MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS -- III EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS -- IV FACSIMILE EDITIONS OF MANUSCRIPTS -- V HISTORY AND CRITICISM -- Index of manuscripts -- General index.
Summary: Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first.
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Cover -- The Book of Memory -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface to the second edition -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Models for the memory -- TABULA MEMORIAE -- THESAURUS SAPIENTIAE -- CHAPTER 2 Descriptions of the neuropsychology of memory -- THE MEMORY-IMAGE -- Brain physiology and the formation of memories -- Thomas Aquinas: a seal impressed in wax -- Dream-images and memory-images -- RECOLLECTION -- Recollection as investigation -- Memory and the habits of virtue -- THE ARCHITECTURAL MNEMONIC -- CHAPTER 3 Elementary memory design -- THE NUMERICAL GRID -- Learning by heart: Hugh of St. Victor on memorizing the Psalms -- Division and composition -- ''Memoria rerum'' -- Formatting the page of memory -- Orality, literacy, memory, and citation of texts -- Robert of Basevorn's quoting schemes -- THE ALPHABET AND KEY-WORD SYSTEM -- Notes and places -- Writing and memory -- Indices and chains -- CHAPTER 4 The arts of memory -- JOHN OF GARLAND (C. 1230) AND THE BESTIARY -- THOMAS BRADWARDINE, ON ACQUIRING A TRAINED MEMORY (C. 1335) -- ALBERTUS MAGNUS, ARISTOTLE, AND THE RHETORICA AD HERENNIUM -- TEACHING AN ART OF MEMORY IN UNIVERSITIES -- MEMORY AND DIALECTIC IN THE VERBAL ARTS -- CHAPTER 5 Memory and the ethics of reading -- COMPOSITION AS GATHERING (OCKHAM, RICHARD DE BURY, AND PETRARCH) -- MEMORY, DIGESTION, AND RUMINATION IN MONASTIC READING -- TWO WAYS OF READING -- FLOWERS OF READING I: HELOISE -- FLOWERS OF READING II: FRANCESCA -- CHAPTER 6 Memory and authority -- THE INTENTION OF THE WORK -- CONSIDER THE BEES -- COMPOSING A WORK: INVENTION -- COLLECTING AND RECOLLECTING -- THE DICTAMEN -- TWO MEDIEVAL AUTHORS AT WORK -- GLOSSING: MAKING A TEXT AN AUTHOR -- CHAPTER 7 Memory and the book -- ''PAINTURE'' AND ''PAROLE'' -- Imagines rerum in psalters for study -- MENTAL PICTURES.

Hugh of St. Victor: the construction of Noah's Ark -- Hugh de Fouilloy: The Dove and the Hawk -- 'DISTINGUISHING' THE BOOK -- Marginal notes -- Diagrams -- Appendix A -- HUGH OF ST. VICTOR: ''THE THREE BEST MEMORY-AIDS FOR LEARNING HISTORY'' -- Appendix B -- ALBERTUS MAGNUS: DE BONO, TRACTATUS IV, QUAESTIO II ''DE PARTIBUS PRUDENTIAE'' -- ARTICLE ONE: WHAT MEMORIA MIGHT BE -- ARTICLE TWO: CONCERNING THE ART OF MEMORY -- Appendix C -- THOMAS BRADWARDINE: ''ON ACQUIRING A TRAINED MEMORY'' -- Notes -- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- APPENDIX A -- APPENDIX B -- APPENDIX C -- Bibliography -- I REFERENCE WORKS -- II CATALOGUES OF MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS -- III EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS -- IV FACSIMILE EDITIONS OF MANUSCRIPTS -- V HISTORY AND CRITICISM -- Index of manuscripts -- General index.

Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first.

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