If Simonides was the inventor of the art of memory, and ‘Tulliua’ its teacher, Thomas Aquinas became something like its patron saint.
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Far from being a rare or special practice, the use of this mnemonic system was the universal foundation of medieval monastic education.
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From Medieval Mnemonics to a Social Construction of Memory: Thoughts on Some Early European Conceptualizations of Memory, Morality, and Consciousness By Noel Packard and Christopher Chen AMERICAN BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST, Vol. 48: 10 (2005) Abstract: How did human memory activity, conceived of as an activity that helped bring a person closer to God, become affiliated with […]
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