Frances A. Yates Art of memory - frances a yates

This unique and brilliant book is a history of human knowledge.

Before the invention of printing, a trained memory was of vital importance.

Based on a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on the mind, the ancient Greeks created an elaborate memory system which in turn was inherited by the Romans and passed into the European tradition, to be revived, in occult form, during the Renaissance.