Jan M. Ziolkowski

The Medieval Craft of Memory: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures

The Medieval Craft of Memory: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures

The art of memory was most importantly associated in the Middle Ages with composition, and those who practiced the craft used it to make new prayers, sermons, pictures, and music.The ability to create pictures in one's own mind was essential to medieval cognitive technique and imagination, and the intensely pictorial and affective qualities of medieval art and literature were generative, creative devices in themselves.

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