The Medieval Craft Of Memory

Author : Mary Carruthers,Jan M. Ziolkowski
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812293425

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The Medieval Craft of Memory by Mary Carruthers,Jan M. Ziolkowski Pdf

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.

Author : Mary Carruthers,Jan M. Ziolkowski
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0812218817

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The Medieval Craft of Memory by Mary Carruthers,Jan M. Ziolkowski Pdf

"A volume that will interest a wide spectrum of readers."—Patrick Geary, University of California, Los Angeles

Author : Mary Carruthers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 875 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107652255

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The Book of Memory by Mary Carruthers Pdf

Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes 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. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new edition devotes much more attention to the role of trained memory in composition, whether of literature, music, architecture, or manuscript books. The new edition will reignite the debate on memory in medieval studies and, like the first, will be essential reading for scholars of history, music, the arts and literature, as well as those interested in issues of orality and literacy (anthropology), in the working and design of memory (both neuropsychology and artificial memory), and in the disciplines of meditation (religion).

Author : Mary J. Carruthers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1992-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521429730

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The Book of Memory by Mary J. Carruthers Pdf

The Book of Memory is a magisterial and beautifully illustrated account of the workings and function of memory in medieval society. Memory was the psychological faculty valued above all others in the period stretching from late antiquity through the Renaissance. The prominence given to memory has profound implications for the contemporary understanding of all creative activity, and the social role of literature and art. Drawing on a range of fascinating examples from Dante, Chaucer, and Aquinas to the symbolism of illuminated manuscripts, this unusually wide-ranging book offers new insights into the medieval world.

Author : Anna Maria Busse Berger
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520314276

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Medieval Music and the Art of Memory by Anna Maria Busse Berger Pdf

Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award and Society of Music Theory's Wallace Berry Award This bold challenge to conventional notions about medieval music disputes the assumption of pure literacy and replaces it with a more complex picture of a world in which literacy and orality interacted. Asking such fundamental questions as how singers managed to memorize such an enormous amount of music and how music composed in the mind rather than in writing affected musical style, Anna Maria Busse Berger explores the impact of the art of memory on the composition and transmission of medieval music. Her fresh, innovative study shows that although writing allowed composers to work out pieces in the mind, it did not make memorization redundant but allowed for new ways to commit material to memory. Since some of the polyphonic music from the twelfth century and later was written down, scholars have long assumed that it was all composed and transmitted in written form. Our understanding of medieval music has been profoundly shaped by German philologists from the beginning of the last century who approached medieval music as if it were no different from music of the nineteenth century. But Medieval Music and the Art of Memory deftly demonstrates that the fact that a piece was written down does not necessarily mean that it was conceived and transmitted in writing. Busse Berger's new model, one that emphasizes the interplay of literate and oral composition and transmission, deepens and enriches current understandings of medieval music and opens the field for fresh interpretations.

Author : Mary Jean Carruthers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-10-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521795419

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The Craft of Thought by Mary Jean Carruthers Pdf

An examination of monastic meditation, first published in 1998.

Author : Lucie Doležalová
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047441601

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The Making of Memory in the Middle Ages by Lucie Doležalová Pdf

Based on case studies from across Europe including its ‘peripheries,’ this book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the notion of memory in the Middle Ages concentrating on contructing memory both as individual competence and as part of a society’s identity.

Author : Lynne Kelly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781681773827

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The Memory Code: The Secrets of Stonehenge, Easter Island and Other Ancient Monuments by Lynne Kelly Pdf

The discovery of a powerful memory technique used by our Neolithic ancestors in their monumental memory places—and how we can use their secrets to train our own minds In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across a landscape, identify the stars in the sky, and recite the history of their people. Yet today, most of us struggle to memorize more than a short poem. Using traditional Aboriginal Australian song lines as a starting point, Dr. Lynne Kelly has since identified the powerful memory technique used by our ancestors and indigenous people around the world. In turn, she has then discovered that this ancient memory technique is the secret purpose behind the great prehistoric monuments like Stonehenge, which have puzzled archaeologists for so long. The henges across northern Europe, the elaborate stone houses of New Mexico, huge animal shapes in Peru, the statues of Easter Island—these all serve as the most effective memory system ever invented by humans. They allowed people in non-literate cultures to memorize the vast amounts of information they needed to survive. But how? For the first time, Dr. Klly unlocks the secret of these monuments and their uses as "memory places" in her fascinating book. Additionally, The Memory Code also explains how we can use this ancient mnemonic technique to train our minds in the tradition of our forbearers.

Author : Dr Elma Brenner,Dr Mary Franklin-Brown,Dr Meredith Cohen
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409463436

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Memory and Commemoration in Medieval Culture by Dr Elma Brenner,Dr Mary Franklin-Brown,Dr Meredith Cohen Pdf

In medieval society and culture, memory occupied a unique position. It was central to intellectual life and the medieval understanding of the human mind. Commemoration of the dead was also a fundamental Christian activity. Above all, the past - and the memory of it - occupied a central position in medieval thinking, from ideas concerning the family unit to those shaping political institutions. Focusing on France but incorporating studies from further afield, this collection of essays marks an important new contribution to the study of medieval memory and commemoration. Arranged thematically, each part highlights how memory cannot be studied in isolation, but instead intersects with many other areas of medieval scholarship, including art history, historiography, intellectual history, and the study of religious culture. Key themes in the study of memory are explored, such as collective memory, the links between memory and identity, the fallibility of memory, and the linking of memory to the future, as an anticipation of what is to come.

Author : Lina Bolzoni
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802043305

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The Gallery of Memory by Lina Bolzoni Pdf

This book takes as its starting point a striking paradox: that the antique tradition of the art of memory -- created by an oral culture -- reached its moment of greatest diffusion during an age that saw the birth of the printed book.

Author : F A Yates
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136353611

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Art Of Memory by F A Yates Pdf

First Published in 1999. This title is the third volume in the ten-volume set titled the Selected Works of Frances Yates. Greyscale illustrations and figures are included throughout - alongside the related descriptive work where applicable. The art in this volume seeks to memorise through a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on memory. It has usually been classed as 'mnemotechnics', which appears an unimportant branch of human activity. However, the author discusses in this title that the manipulation of images in memory must always, to some extent, involve the psyche.

Author : Mary Carruthers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199590322

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The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages by Mary Carruthers Pdf

Uses lexical analyses of key terms employed by medieval people to valuate their own aesthetic feelings to show how flux and change, and the creative tension of antithetical physical qualities from which all things were thought to be made (cold, hot, dry, wet), govern the pleasures medieval artists sought to produce.

Author : Mary Carruthers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521515306

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Rhetoric Beyond Words by Mary Carruthers Pdf

This book analyses collaborative activities across the visual arts to show the power of non-verbal rhetoric in the Middle Ages.

Author : Petina Gappah
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374714888

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The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah Pdf

The story that you have asked me to tell you does not begin with the pitiful ugliness of Lloyd’s death. It begins on a long-ago day in August when the sun seared my blistered face and I was nine years old and my father and mother sold me to a strange man. Memory, the narrator of Petina Gappah’s The Book of Memory, is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, after being sentenced for murder. As part of her appeal, her lawyer insists that she write down what happened as she remembers it. The death penalty is a mandatory sentence for murder, and Memory is, both literally and metaphorically, writing for her life. As her story unfolds, Memory reveals that she has been tried and convicted for the murder of Lloyd Hendricks, her adopted father. But who was Lloyd Hendricks? Why does Memory feel no remorse for his death? And did everything happen exactly as she remembers? Moving between the townships of the poor and the suburbs of the rich, and between past and present, the 2009 Guardian First Book Award–winning writer Petina Gappah weaves a compelling tale of love, obsession, the relentlessness of fate, and the treachery of memory.

Author : Kevin Vost
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1622829387

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Memorize the Faith! by Kevin Vost Pdf