Mary Carruthers\'s classic study of the training and uses of Memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture.
While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new edition devotes much more attention to the role of trained Memory in composition, whether of lit.
This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first.
Mary Carruthers\'s classic study of the training and uses of Memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture