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