Mary Carruthers (Professor and New York University Fellow)

The Book of Memory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 540
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 778g
• ISBN-13: 9780521716314
• ISBN-10: 0521716314
• Artikelnr.: 23414491

Autorenporträt

Mary Carruthers is the author of The Craft of Thought (Cambridge University Press, 1998) and The Medieval Craft of Memory (2002) as well as of The Book of Memory (1990 and 2008). She divides her time between New York City and Oxford, where she holds the positions of Remarque Professor of Literature at New York University and Fellow of All Souls College.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the second edition
Introduction
1. Models for the memory
2. Descriptions of the neuropsychology of memory
3. Elementary memory design
4. The arts of memory
5. Memory and the ethics of reading
6. Memory and authority
7. Memory and the book
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index of manuscripts
General index.