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The book of memory : a study of memory in medieval culture / Mary Carruthers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carruthers, Mary J. (Mary Jean), 1941-
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 70.
- Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 70
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Memory--History.
- Memory.
- Civilization, Medieval--Psychological aspects.
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Civilization--history.
- History, Medieval.
- History.
- Medical Subjects:
- Memory.
- Civilization--history.
- History, Medieval.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 519 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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 and is essential reading for scholars of history, music, the arts, and literature, as well as those interested in issues of orality and literacy (anthropology), in the working and design of memory (both neuropsychology and artificial memory), and in the disciplines of meditation (religion).
- Contents:
- Models for the memory
- Descriptions of the neuropsychology of memory
- Elementary memory design
- The arts of memory
- Memory and the ethics of reading
- Memory and authority
- Memory and the book.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-493) and indexes.
- Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1107597897
- 9781107597891
- Publisher Number:
- 99960036807
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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