Medieval Memory. Image and Text

✍ Scribed by Frank Willaert, Herman Braet, Thom Mertens, Theo Venckeleer

• Publisher: Brepols
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 312
• Series: Textes et Etudes du Moyen Âge, 27
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Scholars of medieval literary and cultural history have grown more aware of the crucial role of memory in the production, reception and functioning of texts and manuscripts. We owe this to the pioneering studies of Frances Yates and, more recently, Mary Carruthers and Susan Hagen.

Historical linguists for their part try to describe the linguistic means by which listeners and readers are enabled to store the information flow in their memories.

The relationship between medieval texts and memory is at the centre of this book. Seven historians of literature, three linguists and one art historian have contributed eleven essays, subsumed under three sections. The first section, ‘Memory Texts’, discusses genres that belong to medieval mnemonics. In the second and most extensive section, ‘Memory Aspects in Texts’, the focus is on literature and, more particularly, on how attention for mnemonics can enhance our insight into the form, composition and functioning of literary texts and manuscripts. Mental and visual images play a central role here. ‘Text Memory’, the final section, analyses medieval (French) literary discourse as a fabric of reference chains, in which different grammatical markers generate and organise mental representations in the memory.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter (“Preface”, “Table of contents”), p. i

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Introduction, p. ix
Frank Willaert, Herman Braet, Thom Mertens, Theo Venckeleer
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2160

Le cœur voyant. Mémoriser les Sentences de Pierre Lombard, p. 3
Susanne Rischpler
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2161

Mnemonics in the Vernacular. More than a Linguistic Paradigm Shift?, p. 41
Sabine Heimann-Seelbach
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2162

Memory’s Two Doors. Mnemotechnical Aspects of Richard de Fournival’s Bestiaire d’amours and the Low-Rhenish Morality Book (Hannover, SLB, IV 369), p. 61
Willem P. Gerritsen
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2163

Mémoire, mnémotechnie et récit de voyage allégorique. L’exemple du Pèlerinage de vie humaine de Guillaume de Digulleville, p. 77
Fabienne Pomel
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2164

Margaret’s Booklets. Memory in Vanden seven sloten by Jan van Ruusbroec, p. 99
Frank Willaert
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2165

L’image du livre comme adjuvant mémoriel dans le Conte des trois chevaliers et des trois livres, p. 129
Anne-Marie Legaré
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2166

The Visual Theology of Julian of Norwich, p. 145
Susan K. Hagen
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2167

Imprint on Your Memory. An Exploration of Mnemonics in the Work of Anthonis de Roovere, p. 161
Johan Oosterman
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2168

L’article défini et la mémoire du texte en ancien français, p. 179
Walter De Mulder
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2169

Chaînes mémorielles et ruptures subjectives dans les Chroniques de Froissart. L’évolution des marqueurs grammaticaux d’intensité, p. 209
Christiane Marchello-Nizia
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2170

Totevoie et l’enchaînement concessif chez Chrétien de Troyes, p. 231
Anne Vanderheyden
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2171

Back matter (“Index”), p. 255

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Colour plates, p. 267
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2172