The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture by Mary Carruthers
The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture

Mary Carruthers

The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture

Mary Carruthers

393 pages first pub 1990 (view editions)

nonfiction history psychology informative slow-paced
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The Book of Memory is a magisterial and beautifully illustrated account of the workings and function of memory in medieval society. Memory was the psychological faculty valued above all others in the period stretching from late antiquity through t...

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