The Art of Memory (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Art of Memory In this 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 Greek orators, through the Middle Ages, to the occult forms it took in the Renaissance, and finally to its use in the 17th century.
Full description- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Published: 01 April 2001
- Format: Paperback 440 pages
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- Categories: Psychology | Cognition & Cognitive Psychology | Memory | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Medieval History | Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700 | History: Specific Events & Topics | Philosophy
- ISBN 13: 9780226950013 ISBN 10: 0226950018
- Sales rank: 353,376
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Full description for The Art of Memory
One of Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century 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.
