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The Medieval Craft of Memory - (Material Texts) by Mary Carruthers & Jan M Ziolkowski (Paperback)

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  • 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.
  • About the Author: Mary Carruthers is Professor Emeritus of English at New York University.
  • 320 Pages
  • History, Europe
  • Series Name: Material Texts

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About the Book



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



Book Synopsis



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.



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"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"



About the Author



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.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.1 Inches (H) x 6.1 Inches (W) x 1.0 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.06 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 320
Series Title: Material Texts
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: Europe
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Theme: Medieval
Format: Paperback
Author: Mary Carruthers & Jan M Ziolkowski
Language: English
Street Date: December 17, 2003
TCIN: 91353940
UPC: 9780812218817
Item Number (DPCI): 247-03-4253
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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