(P/B) THE ART OF MEMORY

Παρουσίαση

The Art of Memory is the classic study of how people learned to retain vast stores of knowledge before the invention of the printed page. In it, Frances A. Yates traces the art of memory from its treatment by Greek orators, through its Gothic transformations in the Middle Ages, to the occult forms it took in the Renaissance, and finally to its use in the seventeenth century. This book, the first to relate the art of memory to the history of culture as a whole, was revolutionary when it first appeared and continues to mesmerize readers with its lucid and revelatory insights. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Preface
- The Three Latin Sources for the Classical Art of Memory
- The Art of Memory in Greece: Memory and the Soul
- The Art of Memory in the Middle Ages
- Mediaeval Memory and the Formation of Imagery
- The Memory Treatises
- Renaissance Memory: The Memory Theatre of Giulio Camillo
- Camillo's Theatre and the Venetian Renaissance
- Lullism as an Art of Memory
- Giordano Bruno: The Secret of Shadows
- Ramism as an Art of Memory
- Giordano Bruno: The Secret of Seals
- Conflict between Brunian and Ramist Memory
- Giordano Bruno: Last Works on Memory
- The Art of Memory and Bruno's Italian Dialogues
- The Theatre Memory System of Robert Fludd
- Fludd's Memory Theatre and the Globe Theatre
- The Art of Memory and the Growth of Scientific Method
Index