Medievalists.net » Memory http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Mnemotechnics and the Reception of the Aeneid in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/24/mnemotechnics-and-the-reception-of-the-aeneid-in-late-antiquity-and-the-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/24/mnemotechnics-and-the-reception-of-the-aeneid-in-late-antiquity-and-the-middle-ages/#comments Sun, 24 Nov 2013 16:50:50 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45178 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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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/20/beasts-and-buildings-religious-symbolism-and-medieval-memory/feed/ 0 From Medieval Mnemonics to a Social Construction of Memory http://www.medievalists.net/2011/05/08/from-medieval-mnemonics-to-a-social-construction-of-memory/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/05/08/from-medieval-mnemonics-to-a-social-construction-of-memory/#comments Sun, 08 May 2011 20:54:49 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=20613 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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