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Ars reminiscendi : mind and memory in Renaissance culture / edited by Donald Beecher and Grant Williams.
- Title
- Ars reminiscendi : mind and memory in Renaissance culture / edited by Donald Beecher and Grant Williams.
- Publication
- Toronto : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2009.
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- Description
- 440 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Essays and studies ; 19
- Uniform Title
- Essays and studies (Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies) 19.
- Subject
- Collective memory > History
- European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism
- Littérature européenne > 1450-1600 (Renaissance) > Histoire et critique
- Memory (Philosophy)
- Memory > History
- Memory in literature
- Mémoire (Philosophie)
- Mémoire collective > Histoire
- Mémoire dans la littérature
- Renaissance
- Renaissance
- Note
- Includes essays first presented at a conference held Jun. 28, 2006 in Ottawa, Ont.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- introduction: the crisis of memory / Donald Beecher -- The mnemonic architecture of the Palais des nobles dames (Lyons, 1534): in defence of famous women / Brenda Dunn-Lardeau -- Patterns and functions of the mnemonics image in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Andrea Torre -- Mnemonic imagery in the early middle period: visibility and collective memory / Wolfgang Neuber -- A Sephardic art of memory / James Nelson Novoa -- Experience recollected in tranquility: Thomas Hoby's travel journal as constructed memory / Kenneth R. Bartlett -- "Memorial books": commonplaces, gender, and manuscript compilation in seventeenth-century England / Victoria E. Burke -- Reading and memory in the universal library: Conrad Gessner and the Renaissance book / Paul Nelles -- The well-stocked memory and the well-tended self: Erasmus and the limits of humanist education / John Hunter -- Johann Sturm's "figurative drafts": memory, imitation, reminiscence in Nobilitas literata (1549) / Marie-Alice Belle -- Paridise lost: memories are made of this / Raymond B. Wassington -- "What's Hecuba to him?": pain, privacy, and the ancient text / Andrew Wallace -- Machiavelli manufacturing memory: terrorizing history, historicizing terror / Joseph Koury -- The duty of memory: the contradictions in Conrad Celtis's Oratio (1492) / Danièle Letocha -- Spenseer and interpellative memory / Christopher Ivic -- The transmateriality of memory in early modern psychophysiological discourse / Grant Williams -- Hooke's two buckets: memory, mnemotechnique and knowledge in the early Royal Society / Rhodri Lewis -- Recollection, cognition, and culture: an overview of Renaissance memory / Donald Beecher.
- ISBN
- 0772720487 (pbk.)
- 9780772720481 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2009366824
- OCLC
- 300582671
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library