In antiquity and the Middle Ages, memory was a craft, and certain actions and tools were thought to be necessary for its creation and recollection. This book brings together the texts and visual images from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries that are central to an understanding of memory and memory technique.

The ability to create pictures in one's own mind was essential to medieval cognitive technique and imagination, and the intensely pictorial and affective qualities of medieval art and literature were generative, creative devices in themselves.

General IntroductionSelection 1. Hugh of St. Victor, The Three Best Memory Aids for Learning HistorySelection 2. Hugh of St. Victor, A Little Book About Constructing Noah's ArkSelection 3. The Guidonian HandSelection 4. [Alan of Lille], On the Six Wings of the SeraphSelection 5. Boncompagno da Signa, On MemorySelection 6. Albertus Magnus, Commentary on Aristotle, On Memory and RecollectionSelection 7. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Aristotle, On Memory and RecollectionSelection 8. Francesc Eiximenis, On Two Kinds of Order That Aid Understanding and MemorySelection 9. Thomas Bradwardine, On Acquiring a Trained MemorySelection 10. John of Metz, The Tower of WisdomSelection 11. Jacobus Publicius, The Art of MemorySelection 12. Anonymous, A Method for Recollecting the Gospels Appendix. Two texts on Rhetorical Memoria from Late AntiquityConsultus Fortunatianus, On MemoryC. Julius Victor, On Memory General BibliographyList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments