How to Make a Composition: Memory-Craft in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

TitleHow to Make a Composition: Memory-Craft in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Publication TypeBook Chapter
Year of PublicationSubmitted
AuthorsMary J. Carruthers, Susannah Radstone, Bill Schwarz,
Pagination15-29
PublisherFordham University Press
CityNew York
Notes

'\n{15} The so-called \"arts of memory,\" artes memorandi, which were taught commonly in the curricula of dialectic and rhetoric for roughly two thousand years between the fourth century BCE and the sixteenth century CE, belong to a different psychological country from that of the modern Western, post-Enlightenment \"memory\" that is the concern of most of the rest of this volume.\"\n'