The Art of Memory

Yates, Frances A.

ISBN 10: 071265545X / ISBN 13: 9780712655453

Published by Random House UK, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Art of Memory
• Publisher: Random House UK
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 071265545X
• ISBN 13: 9780712655453
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Dame Frances Yates (1899-1981) achieved a world-wide reputation as an historian. Her close association with the Warburg Institute of the University of London began shortly after the Second World War, after the publication of her first two books. She was Reader in the History of the Renaissance there until 1967, when she became an Honorary Fellow. As well as gaining many academic honours, she was awarded the OBE in 1977 and was made DBE, in the same year. Her publications include Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, Theatre of the World, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment, Astraea, Shakespeare's Last Plays and The Valois Tapestries.