The Art of Memory by Frances Yates

The Art of Memory

Frances Yates

400 pages first pub 1966 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced

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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 Middl...

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