{"product_id":"ancient-and-medieval-memories-studies-in-the-reconstruction-of-the-past-hardback-9780521411448","title":"Ancient and Medieval Memories; Studies in the Reconstruction of the Past (Hardback) 9780521411448","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAncient and Medieval Memories\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eStudies in the Reconstruction of the Past\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book comprises a series of studies which take ancient texts as evidence of the past, and show how medieval readers and writers understood them.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJanet Coleman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521411448, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 January 1992\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e668 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.7 x 4.7 cm, 1.147 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Coleman' s scholarship is stunning: her research does a great service to scholars in a variety of disciplines, for whom she opens up and makes accessible an unexpectedly large number of philosophical accounts of memory.'   The Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book is an analysis of thinking, remembering and reminiscing according to ancient authors, and their medieval readers. The author argues that behind the various medieval methods in interpreting texts of the past lie two apparently incompatible theories of human knowledge and remembering, as well as two differing attitudes to matter and intellect. The book comprises a series of studies which take ancient texts as evidence of the past, and show how medieval readers and writers understood them. The studies confirm that medieval and renaissance interpretations and uses of the past differ greatly from modern interpretation and yet betray many startling continuities between modern and ancient and medieval theories.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Critical Texts of Antiquity: 1. Plato\u003cbr\u003e 2. Aristotle\u003cbr\u003e 3. Cicero\u003cbr\u003e 4. Pliny and Roman naturalists on memory\u003cbr\u003e Borges's Funes the Memorious\u003cbr\u003e 5. Plotinus and the early neoplatonists on memory and mind\u003cbr\u003e 6. Augustine\u003cbr\u003e 7. Augustine, De Trinitate\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Practice of Memory During the Period of Transition from Classical Antiquity to the Christian Monastic Centuries: 8. The early monastic practice of memory: Gregory the Great\u003cbr\u003e Benedict and his rule\u003cbr\u003e 9. Bede, monastic grammatica and reminiscence\u003cbr\u003e 10. Monastic memory in service of oblivion\u003cbr\u003e 11. Cistercian 'blanched' memory and St Bernard\u003cbr\u003e 12. Twelfth-century Cistercians: the Boethian legacy and the physiological issues in Greco-Arabic medical writings\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Beginnings of the Scholastic Understanding of Memory: 13. Abelard\u003cbr\u003e 14. Memory and its uses: the relationship between a theory of memory and twelfth-century historiography\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Aristotle Neoplatonised: The Revival of Aristotle and the Development of Scholastic Theories of Memory: 15. Arabic and Jewish translations of sources from antiquity: their use by Latin Christians\u003cbr\u003e 16. John Blund, David of Dinant, the De potentiis animae et objectis\u003cbr\u003e 17. John of la Rochelle\u003cbr\u003e 18. Averroes\u003cbr\u003e 19. Albert the Great\u003cbr\u003e 20. Thomas Aquinas\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Later Medieval Theories of Memory: The Via Antiqua and the Via Moderna: 21. John Duns Scotus\u003cbr\u003e 22. William of Ockham\u003cbr\u003e 23. The legacy of the via antiqua and the via moderna in the Renaissance and beyond\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005929804056,"sku":"9780521411448","price":119.87,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521411448i_577560cb-c43d-4b21-9c8f-49a66f71af7f.jpg?v=1691381290","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/ancient-and-medieval-memories-studies-in-the-reconstruction-of-the-past-hardback-9780521411448","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}