The Memory Arts in Renaissance England

The Memory Arts in Renaissance England
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 397
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ISBN-13 : 9781316495414
ISBN-10 : 1316495418
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Download or read book The Memory Arts in Renaissance England written by William E. Engel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first critical anthology of writings about memory in Renaissance England. Drawing together excerpts from more than seventy writers, poets, physicians, philosophers and preachers, and with over twenty illustrations, the anthology offers the reader a guided exploration of the arts of memory. The introduction outlines the context for the tradition of the memory arts from classical times to the Renaissance and is followed by extracts from writers on the art of memory in general, then by thematically arranged sections on rhetoric and poetry, education and science, history and philosophy, religion, and literature, featuring texts from canonical, non-canonical and little-known sources. Each excerpt is supported with notes about the author and about the text's relationship to the memory arts, and includes suggestions for further reading. The book will appeal to students of the memory arts, Renaissance literature, the history of ideas, book history and art history.


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