Book of Memory A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture

Name: Book of Memory A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture
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ISBN: 9780521716314

ISBN-10: 0521716314

ISBN-13: 9780521716314

Edition: 2nd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Mary Carruthers

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Mary Carrutherss 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,…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/29/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 540
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.06" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English



List of illustrations


Preface to the second edition


List of abbreviations


Introduction



Models for the memory



Descriptions of the neuropsychology of memory



Elementary memory design



The arts of memory



Memory and the ethics of reading



Memory and authority



Memory and the book


Appendix A


Appendix B


Appendix C


Notes


Bibliography


Index of manuscripts


General index