Ben delivered a book report on Frances Yates's The Art of Memory.
Members practiced the list they learned last month. Most people remembered most or all of the list.
The book turned out to be less exciting that we had hoped. Yates was primarily interested in the transmission of particular Greek and Roman texts on memorization through the ages. We had hoped to find more information on the practice of the arts of memory. There was some tantalizing information about the use of the arts in Medieval Occult circles and new forms of knowledge/power being created by the architectural construction of mnemonic knowledge, but not much.
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