Includes essays first presented at a conference held Jun. 28, 2006 in Ottawa, Ont
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
introduction: the crisis of memory / Donald Beecher -- The mnemonic architecture of the Palais des nobles dames (Lyons, 1534): in defence of famous women / Brenda Dunn-Lardeau -- Patterns and functions of the mnemonics image in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Andrea Torre -- Mnemonic imagery in the early middle period: visibility and collective memory / Wolfgang Neuber -- A Sephardic art of memory / James Nelson Novoa -- Experience recollected in tranquility: Thomas Hoby's travel journal as constructed memory / Kenneth R. Bartlett -- "Memorial books": commonplaces, gender, and manuscript compilation in seventeenth-century England / Victoria E. Burke -- Reading and memory in the universal library: Conrad Gessner and the Renaissance book / Paul Nelles -- The well-stocked memory and the well-tended self: Erasmus and the limits of humanist education / John Hunter -- Johann Sturm's "figurative drafts": memory, imitation, reminiscence in Nobilitas literata (1549) / Marie-Alice Belle -- Paridise lost: memories are made of this / Raymond B. Wassington -- "What's Hecuba to him?": pain, privacy, and the ancient text / Andrew Wallace -- Machiavelli manufacturing memory: terrorizing history, historicizing terror / Joseph Koury -- The duty of memory: the contradictions in Conrad Celtis's Oratio (1492) / Daniè€le Letocha -- Spenseer and interpellative memory / Christopher Ivic -- The transmateriality of memory in early modern psychophysiological discourse / Grant Williams -- Hooke's two buckets: memory, mnemotechnique and knowledge in the early Royal Society / Rhodri Lewis -- Recollection, cognition, and culture: an overview of Renaissance memory / Donald Beecher