The art of memory
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Author
Publication
1974 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, United States
Language
English
Word Count
100,000 words, Guess
Page Count
400 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL22622666M
- ISBN-100226950018
- OCLC Control Number2669718
- OCLC Control Number42905743
- OCLC Control Number192744
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number66022770
- LibraryThing21081
- Goodreads245831
Classifications
- DDC153.12
- LCC
Description
Overview: 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.
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