| Notes | '\n{195} Medieval culture remained profoundly memorial in nature, despite the increased use and availability of books for reasons other than technological convenience. The primary factor in its conservation lies in the identification of memory with creative thinking, learning (invention and recollection), and the ability to make judgments (prudence and wisdom). Writing, as we have seen, was always thought to be a memory aid, not a substitute for it. Children learned to write as part of reading/memorizing, inscribing their memories in the act of inscribing their tablets. Writing itself was judged to be an ethical activity in monastic culture.\n'
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