The Art of Memory (Frances Yates: Selected Works)
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Binding: Library Binding
Dewey Decimal Number: 153.1409
EAN: 9780415220460
ISBN: 0415220467
Label: Routledge
Manufacturer: Routledge
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 200
Publication Date: 1999-12
Publisher: Routledge
Studio: Routledge
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"Once in a very great while, historical scholarship produces a book which makes one immediately begin re-thinking many of one's major suppositions about the thought systems of the past. Professor Yates has given us such a book."--Norman D. Hinton, The Modern Schoolman
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Summary: Excellent. It will change your views on Architecture and the Mind.
Comment: I consider this one of the most important books I have ever read. It changed my views on ancient and medieval architecture, memory, and the mind. Specifically, this book is the history of the art of memory. It is about how in the age before books or wide-spread literacy, human beings were able to memorize massive amounts of information. For example, the traveling poets in Greece, Cicero in Rome, etc. It also details some architecture was actually designed to facility memorization. The book also discusses the hermetic tradition, some aspects of alchemy and the zodiac, and other related matters - all within the context of the human mind and the human ability to utilize "mental structures," "pictures," and other "devices" - as well as "architecture" to assist in memory and thinking. This book is a scholarly work and was written by a scholar. It is excellent, but it is not a simple or easy book. It is wide-ranging. You will learn some history and some aspects of memorization techniques. But it is not a book on memorization techniques (but you will understand the most important ones from reading this book). It is much better than a how-to-book on memory or memorization. Again, this is one of the most important books I have read and I encourage the serious reader interested in human memory, thinking, architecture, history, etc. to read this book. Excellent.
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Summary: History book with no methods for application
Comment: The author states more than a few times that "I myself have never applied these methods for remembering. I am only a historian of the art."
I believe that sentence sums up the entire book. If you are looking to improve your memory, look for other titles that provide exercises and concrete methods for doing so. This book will give you an exhausting list of people who had wonderfully trained memories with incredibly vague descriptions of how they achieved them.
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Summary: This book will change your life
Comment: Quite simply one of the dozen or so most amazing books of history ever written. It will change your idea of history, art and even your own memory. It is a decisive work on the Renaissance and goes along way to explaining the development of perspective in painting and of the Elizabethan theater. But more than anything else this book reveals, as never before to this reader, the power and glory of the human imagination. It reawakens an ancient secret. Memory itself had been forgotten until Yates recalled it out of history's unconscious. This book is one for the ages.
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Summary: Definitely pass on this one
Comment: I bought the book because recently I have been into the personal mastery thing like increasing your memory, reading better, and so on. Before I bought the book, I read the preface, and the the promises in it did not deliver. Before I go on I assure you that unlike some reviewers I read this 390 some pages of this book. This is definitely one of those books that Mortimor Adler in their book "How to Read a Book" describes as books that should challege you. And quite a challenge it is. Frances Yates assumes that the reader have knowledge of many things. Like foriegn languages such as Latin, Italian, this book is rife with it and most of it untranslated. Frances Yates also assumes that the reader know of various philosophical idiosycrasies of the known history of man.
The title of the book suggest that it is a book about the history of the art of memory and it is not. I agree with the earlier review of hglee of Avoldone Estates in GA. Definitely pass on this one and move on and forget the title of the book.
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Summary: An excellent exploration of a forgotten art
Comment: If you are fascinated by history or by scholarship throughout recorded time, you should enjoy this book. Francis Yates has created a detailed examination of memory techniques and their evolution over the course of generations. Beginning in ancient Greece and continuing through the Middle Ages, Yates shows how the art of remembering began as a sort of parlor trick and developed into an important skill in both religion and the occult. The influence from both individuals and cultures is described in a scholarly (yet not annoyingly so) way. While this book is not for everyone, its intended audience should be delighted.
NOTE: This book is not a "how-to" manual for memory. It provides only a very general description of memory methods and is instead an exploration of the history of the art.
An excellent companion piece to this book is _The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci_. Both books were listed in the acknowledgements of Thomas Harris' _Hannibal_.
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