Masters, Pupils, Friends, And Thieves. A Fashion of Ars memorativa in the Environment of the Early German Humanists
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2012
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This article considers several issues regarding the art of memory (ars memorativa)
that can be observed in printed treatises composed by early German humanists. It
seems that between about 1474 and 1530 it was fashionable for some German
scholars to compose, compile and publish mnemonic treatises of their own. There
is evidence that the treatises by, e.g., Matheolus Perusinus, Jacobus Publicius,
Conrad Celtis, Petrus de Ravenna, Jodocus Wetzdorf, Conrad Umhauser, Hermann
von dem Busche or Johannes Cusanus were widely read and spread at the turn of
the 16th century. The characteristic features of the treatises, their structure and the
format from this period, such as the quantitative analysis of the treatises printed till
the end of the 15th century, are considered in the article. The other part of the text
focuses on the environment of the German humanists who used to read and write
mnemonic treatises, exchange ideas and, sometimes, even thieve them from one
another.
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Ars memorativa, art of memory, Humanismus, Print Culture, Mnemonics, Humanists, Medieval studies, 15th Century, 16th Century, Incunabula
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Daphnis 41, 2012, pp. 399-418