About this title: The leading Renaissance scholar of her time, Frances Yates revolutionised the study of the history of art, science and ideas. She demonstrated that ideas and practices once considered marginal such as hermeticism and alchemy were actually at the forefront of the renaissance mind. Yates was a pioneer in her emphasis on visual culture and many of ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Book is in good reading condition. Cover has wear at edges and corners, and may have creases. Spine has wear at edges and creases. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Books 1978
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780140550849ISBN:0140550844
Description: ISBN 0140550844. Trade Paperback. Later Printing. Tight sound copy in good condition with some underlining and and margin notes in blue ink to preface and first chapter of the text, no apparent markings to rest of book, some browning to edges of interior pages, minor creasing to cover edges and spine. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Pimlico
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780712655453ISBN:071265545X
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Pimlico
Date Published: 1992-10-01
ISBN-13:9780712655453ISBN:071265545X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Random House UK
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780712655453ISBN:071265545X
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Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: VINTAGE Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780712655453ISBN:071265545X
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 448 pages. (448 pages) this study of memory looks at the history and development of memory enhancement. the book begins by looking at the ancient greeks who invented a memory system based on a technique of impressing "places" and "images" on the mind. this technique was then developed by the romans and europeans. 24pp b&w photographs edition new ed (Paperback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chicago, Chicago
Date Published: 1966
ISBN-13:9780710023384ISBN:0710023383
Description: Good/No Jacket. . Hardcover, good condition, with somewhat rubbed boards, some marks and scratches. somewhat slanted, somewhat compressed spine, lightly bumped corners--bottom corners lightly frayed. somewhat tanned p. edges, some light soil or spots. lightly tanned eps, sme lightly tanned pp. 8-9 cm stain along fr edge, ffep. Also, sig, etc. A few light pencil markings. O/w cln, tight. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PIMLICO
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780712655453ISBN:071265545X
Description: New. 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 Middle A... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780712655453ISBN:071265545X
Description: New. This study of memory looks at the history and development of memory enhancement. The book begins by looking at the ancient Greeks who invented a memory system based on a technique of impressing "places" and "images" on the mind. This technique was the... read more
Description: Good. Used paperback in good condition, mark to inside cover and small tear to inside page. In this book Frances Yates uncovers the secrets of the ancient art of memory-from classical Greece to Shakespeare's England. Chapters on the three Latin sources for the classical art of memory, the art of memory in the middle ages, the memory theatre of Giulio Camillo and much more. Contains a section of illustrations and a fold diagram of Camillo's memory theatre. 439 pages. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13:9780226950013ISBN:0226950018
Description: Good. 0226950018 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
"This book is a classic, and unreplaced by any of the subsequent works on memory treatises. Particularly productively provocative are the comments on contemporaneous art and literature, and how the structures of memory treatises may have affected these."
"I love books about things I not only know nothing about, but things I had not only never heard of but impinge on things I do know about. This book traces the history of the idea of the 'memory palace' from classical times to the 17th century, concluding with the hypothesis that the Globe Theatre was in fact designed using the traditional 'memory palace' as a template."
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