The Art of Memory - Softcover

Yates, Frances A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226950018 ISBN 13: 9780226950013

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1974

Synopsis

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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Review:

"Frances Yates is that rare thing, a truly thrilling scholar" (Michael Ratcliffe The Times)

"One of those quite remarkable and unclassifiable books on the history of knowledge which suddenly makes sense of three or four issues in terms of one commanding metaphor" (Jonathan Miller Observer)

Book Description:

A revolutionary book about mnemonic techniques, and their relation to culture as a whole, which is itself hard to forget.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0226950018
• ISBN 13: 9780226950013
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 464