Mnemotechnics and the Reception of the Aeneid in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
If Simonides was the inventor of the art of memory, and ‘Tulliua’ its teacher, Thomas Aquinas became something like its patron saint.
Beasts and Buildings: Religious Symbolism and Medieval Memory
Far from being a rare or special practice, the use of this mnemonic system was the universal foundation of medieval monastic education.
From Medieval Mnemonics to a Social Construction of Memory
From Medieval Mnemonics to a Social Construction of Memory: Thoughts on Some Early European Conceptualizations of Memory, Morality, and Consciousness By Noel Packard…