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The art of memory

Paperback • 1984 • English

The art of memory

By Yates, Frances Amelia, Yates Frances A.

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About the book

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 cult...Show more

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ISBN

9780226950013

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published year

1984

Language

English

Original title

The art of memory

Format

Paperback

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