The Art of Memory

One of Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century

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 Ages, to the occult forms it took in the Renaissance, a...

One of Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century

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 Ages, to the occult forms it took in the Renaissance, and finally to its use in the seventeenth century. This book, the first to relate the art of memory to the history of culture as a whole, was revolutionary when it first appeared and continues to mesmerize readers with its lucid and revelatory insights.

弗朗西丝‧叶芝(Frances A. Yates)

英国知名历史学家，曾任教于伦敦大学华堡学院，并荣膺大英帝国司令勋章(Order of the British Empire)以及大英帝国二等女爵士(Dame Commander of the British Empire)等尊衔。另著有《布鲁诺与赫米斯知识传统》(Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition )(1964) 以及《玫瑰十字启蒙》(The Rosicrucian Enlightenment) (1971)等。