The Art of Memory: Frances A Yates - Softcover

Yates, Frances A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847922929 ISBN 13: 9781847922922

Publisher: Bodley Head, 2014

Synopsis

This unique and brilliant book is a history of human knowledge.

Before the invention of printing, a trained memory was of vital importance. Based on a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on the mind, the ancient Greeks created an elaborate memory system which in turn was inherited by the Romans and passed into the European tradition, to be revived, in occult form, during the Renaissance.

Frances Yates sheds light on Dante’s Divine Comedy, the form of the Shakespearian theatre and the history of ancient architecture; The Art of Memory is an invaluable contribution to aesthetics and psychology, and to the history of philosophy, of science and of literature.

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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: Bodley Head
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1847922929
• ISBN 13: 9781847922922
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448