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ISBN: 0226950018

ISBN13: 9780226950013

The Art of Memory

Name: Excellent. It will change your views on Architecture and the Mind.
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By Frances A. Yates

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Book Overview

One of Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century In this classic study of how people learned to retain vast stores of knowledge before the invention of the printed page, Frances A. Yates traces the art of memory from its treatment by Greek orators, through its Gothic transformations in the Middle Ages, to the occult forms it took in the Renaissance, and finally to its use in the seventeenth century. This book, the first to relate the art of memory to the history of culture as a whole, was revolutionary when it first appeared and continues to mesmerize readers with its lucid and revelatory insights.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226950018

ISBN13:9780226950013

Release Date:April 2001

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:464 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Rated 5 stars
Excellent. It will change your views on Architecture and the Mind.

By Thriftbooks.com User, July 20, 2008

I consider this one of the most important books I have ever read. It changed my views on ancient and medieval architecture, memory, and the mind. Specifically, this book is the history of the art of memory. It is about how in the age before books or wide-spread literacy, human beings were able to memorize massive amounts of information. For example, the traveling poets in Greece, Cicero in Rome, etc. It also details some...

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This book will change your life

By Thriftbooks.com User, May 13, 2007

Quite simply one of the dozen or so most amazing books of history ever written. It will change your idea of history, art and even your own memory. It is a decisive work on the Renaissance and goes along way to explaining the development of perspective in painting and of the Elizabethan theater. But more than anything else this book reveals, as never before to this reader, the power and glory of the human imagination. It reawakens...

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Rated 5 stars
Outstanding book

By Thriftbooks.com User, July 9, 2001

An incredible book and very historical in nature. I would refer to the previous reviews of this book in the light of their individual statements. The reviewers helped me in the purchasing of this book, also Yates, and her research on the art of memory does not disappoint me. In fact, this book has taken me in many different directions regarding memory: Loci, mnemonics, mnemotechnics, history, mysticism, magic, mathematics,...

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Rated 5 stars
If "revelatory" weren't such a big word, I'd use it!

By Thriftbooks.com User, July 9, 2000

A book about memory? Mnemonics, eh? Dull stuff...WRONG!!! This is just about the most engrossing scholarly work I have ever read. Quite apart from displaying a masterly grasp of her subject, which is far more interesting than I would have believed before reading the book, Yates throws fascinating light on a number of seemingly unrelated topics: the Roman art of rhetoric, the architecture of the Globe theatre, the foundations...

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Rated 5 stars
A book to change one's world-view

By Thriftbooks.com User, April 26, 2000

I ran into this book after having learned over 3000 Chinese characters through what turned out to be Art of Memory techniques. (See James Heisig's books "Remembering the Kanji" series. Take it from me, the techniques work.) For anyone who is interested in Renaissance and pre-Renaissance history, art, or culture, I believe this book essential to understanding the mindset. Heartily recommended. For true mental whiplash,...

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