Art of Memory

Yates, Frances A.

ISBN 10: 0710023383 / ISBN 13: 9780710023384

Published by Routledge, Kegan Paul, 1966

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Art of Memory
• Publisher: Routledge, Kegan Paul
• Publication Date: 1966
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0710023383
• ISBN 13: 9780710023384
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Book Type: book

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Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket is marked and suffed. Edges are creased and nicked. Page block is lightly blemished. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW

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The Art of Memory is the classic study of how people learned to retain vast stores of knowledge before the invention of the printed page. In it, 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.