The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval CultureRecommendations
About the book
Mary Carruthers' renowned research of memory training and applications in European societies throughout the Middle Ages has radically influenced how historians interpret mediaeval civilization. This thoroughly edited and updated second edition revisits all of the original edition's content and conclusions. While responding to new research directions inspired by the original, this updated edition focuses on the function of trained memory in creativity, whether of literature, music, architecture, or manuscript books.
The new edition will reignite the debate on memory in mediaeval studies, and, like the first, will be required reading for historians, musicologists, artists, and writers, as well as those interested in issues of orality and literacy (anthropology), the working and design of memory (both neuropsychology and artificial memory), and the disciplines of meditation (religion).
