CANCELED - A Game of Stones: The Art of Memory in the Middle Ages
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Thursday, March 26, 2020
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CANCELED - A Game of Stones: The Art of Memory in the Middle Ages
In an age when the majority of people in Europe could not read, the use of artificial memory training systems developed in Classical Greece was essential to medieval preachers for the composition and delivery of their sermons. In the course of the talk, we may be surprised how often we create our own memory palaces in daily life today.
Leslie Warden-Anderson, warden@roanoke.edu false MM/DD/YYYY