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This is the first critical anthology of writings about memory in Renaissance England. Drawing together excerpts from more than seventy writers, poets, physicians, philosophers and preachers, and with over twenty illustrations, the anthology offers the reader a guided exploration of the arts of memory. The introduction outlines the context for the tradition of the memory arts from classical times to the Renaissance and is followed by extracts from writers on the art of memory in general, then by thematically arranged sections on rhetoric and poetry, education and science, history and philosophy, religion, and literature, featuring texts from canonical, non-canonical and little-known sources. Each excerpt is supported with notes about the author and about the text's relationship to the memory arts, and includes suggestions for further reading. The book will appeal to students of the memory arts, Renaissance literature, the history of ideas, book history and art history.
ISBN-13

9781107451674

ISBN-10

1107451671

Weight

1.37 Pounds

Dimensions

6.00 x 0.90 x 9.00 In

List Price

$36.99

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

394 pages

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published On

2016-07-28


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