Medieval Craft of Memory

An Anthology of Texts and Pictures

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

AvMary Carruthers,Jan M. Ziolkowski,Jan M Ziolkowski

459 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

In antiquity and the Middle Ages, memory was a craft, and certain actions and tools were thought to be necessary for its creation and recollection. Until now, however, many of the most important visual and textual sources on the topic have remained untranslated or otherwise difficult to consult. Mary Carruthers and Jan M. Ziolkowski bring together the texts and visual images from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries that are central to an understanding of memory and memory technique. These sources are now made available for a wider audience of students of medieval and early modern history and culture and readers with an interest in memory, mnemonics, and the synergy of text and image.The art of memory was most importantly associated in the Middle Ages with composition, and those who practiced the craft used it to make new prayers, sermons, pictures, and music. The mixing of visual and verbal media was commonplace throughout medieval cultures: pictures contained visual puns, words were often verbal paintings, and both were used equally as tools for making thoughts. The ability to create pictures in one's own mind was essential to medieval cognitive technique and imagination, and the intensely pictorial and affective qualities of medieval art and literature were generative, creative devices in themselves.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2003-12-17
Mått155 x 231 x 25 mm
Vikt481 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieMaterial Texts
Antal sidor320
FörlagUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN9780812218817

Tillhör följande kategorier

Kognitiv psykologi inom Psykologi och pedagogik
Historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mary Carruthers is Professor Emeritus of English at New York University. She is author of The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture and The Craft of Thought: Rhetoric, Meditation, and the Making of Images, 400-1200. Jan M. Ziolkowski is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin at Harvard University and editor of Obscenity: Social Control and Artistic Creation in the European Middle Ages.

General IntroductionSelection 1. Hugh of St. Victor, The Three Best Memory Aids for Learning HistorySelection 2. Hugh of St. Victor, A Little Book About Constructing Noah's ArkSelection 3. The Guidonian HandSelection 4. [Alan of Lille], On the Six Wings of the SeraphSelection 5. Boncompagno da Signa, On MemorySelection 6. Albertus Magnus, Commentary on Aristotle, On Memory and RecollectionSelection 7. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Aristotle, On Memory and RecollectionSelection 8. Francesc Eiximenis, On Two Kinds of Order That Aid Understanding and MemorySelection 9. Thomas Bradwardine, On Acquiring a Trained MemorySelection 10. John of Metz, The Tower of WisdomSelection 11. Jacobus Publicius, The Art of MemorySelection 12. Anonymous, A Method for Recollecting the Gospels Appendix. Two texts on Rhetorical Memoria from Late AntiquityConsultus Fortunatianus, On MemoryC. Julius Victor, On MemoryGeneral BibliographyList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments

"The extraordinary reception that Mary Carruthers's The Book of Memory has received, as well as that of other recent studies of learned memory, amply justifies an anthology of high medieval memory texts. That Carruthers would coedit the volume with Jan Ziolkowski, one of our major medieval Latinists, is particularly felicitous. The result is a volume that will interest a wide spectrum of readers."-Patrick Geary, University of California, Los Angeles