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Selected Works, Volume 3: The Art of Memory

By Frances A. Yates

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2010
ISBN
0415220467, 0415220432, 074480020X
LCC
BF381
Open Library ID
OL20500042M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8481597 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
222\222
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

In this classic study of how people learned to retain vast stores of knowledge before the invention of the printed page, 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.

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