poor, in Dante’s
Inferno 231–232
72–73
role of book decoration and punctuation
emotional accompaniment of memory 387, 392
141, 281 as key to creativity 246–249
504
General index
emotional accompaniment of memory (cont.)
fields/gardens (garths)
and oratory 254
associated with books/memory
see bees;
see also ‘‘affection’’; Aristotle; memory-images;
‘‘flowers of reading’
oratory; reason and emotion
as memory-places (
loci) 174, 356
Engelbert of Nassau
451
filing-cabinet model, compared with medieval
epistemology 375–376
metaphors 38
epistylion (‘‘architrave’’), Aristotle’s use
Fishacre, Richard, syllable index
150–151, 411
of 43
fishing
Equitius, Abbot 46
metaphor for recollection
78 , 259, 323–324
Erasistratus of Ceos
59
scenes in manuscript margins
451–452
Erasmus, Desiderius, Adagia 228
see also cat; hooks
error
fives
double meaning 324
Bradwardine’s sets of memory-places in
elimination 107–109 , 114 , 398 –399
165 –166, 184
, 361–362, 406
see also forgetting; recollection, errors of
division of text into
132
estimative power see
vis aestimativa
Flann (son of King Malochy of Ireland)
47
–49
Ethica, painted manuscript figure of
268
Fiore di rettorica
419
ethics/morality 16, 226
florilegia 30, 35, 105, 217 –222, 432
architectural metaphor 53–54
compiled by regular clergy
229
Hugh of St. Victor’s ‘‘moralization’ see under
defined 217–218
Libellus de formatione arche
definitional ‘‘copiousness’ of
see ‘ copiousness’
memory for things
vs. memory for words
see
(intended) memorization 221
under memory for things
justification for use
221–222
public memory’s role in development of
ordering principles 220–221
individual ethical behavior
229
purpose 220–221
reading and 211, 237
reasons for compilation
219–220
relationship with habit
85 –86
target audience 220–221, 228–229
well-trained memory as sign of moral virtue
1,
types of 220
14– 15, 172, 354–355
vernacular, of Italian and French humanism
see also judgment, moral; literature, moral
227 –230
function; prudence
see also Bartolomeo da San Concordio; Latini,
Etsi cum Tullius see
William of Champeaux
Brunetto: Tre
śor ; Petrarch: Rerum
Eusebius, Canon Tables
118 , 144
, 162–163, 281 ,
memorandarum libri; Thomas of Ireland
324, 401, 414
Florilegium Duacense 221, 430
Evan the Breton (Thomas Aquinas’s secretary)
‘‘flowers of reading’ trope
3
0, 45, 220,
7 –8, 370
229 –230, 333
Evans, Gillian R.
56, 187, 265, 430
Fodor, J. A.
26
ex tempore dicendi see
improvisation
‘‘forest’ (of disordered material) see
silva
Exegetical critics 433
forgetting x, 78
view of moral function of literature
difficulty in 95–96
224 –225, 432
selective xi –xii
exemplar (scribal fair copy)
241–242, 255, 261,
two sorts of
xi –xii
263–264
see also recollection, errors of
eyeglasses, invention of
198, 421
forma/ae 224 , 329
Ezekiel (Biblical book/character)
20, 53 –54, 209,
forma tractatus/tractandi, distinction
231 , 275, 425–426
between 250
plans of Temple complex
303
Fortunatianus, Consultus 107, 214, 250
, 399
memory advice 110–112, 115, 182–183, 307
fables, animal, as manuscript decoration
see
forulus 42, 44
Aesop; Renart
France/French
Faccio, Anselmo 396–397
humanism 227 –228
‘‘familiarization’’/‘‘domestication’ (making one’s
memorial artes 193 –194
reading a part of oneself)
204–205, 273,
see also Bible; Rhetorica ad Herennium
,
276–277
translations
Ferreolus, Rule of
112
Francis of Assisi, St. 14, 89, 217
General index
505
Franciscans 193 , 452–453
tradition of memory
12, 20
Fredborg, Karin 188
see also Alexandrine Greece; Aristotle
Froissart, Jean 435
Green, William M.
100
Fulgentius 269
Greene, Thomas M.
228, 239
fundamentalism 13, 371
Gregory I ‘‘the Great,’ Pope
46 , 112, 205
, 223, 383
commentary on Ezekiel
426, 427
Galen 57 , 59 , 61, 64, 390, 394
Dialogues 382–383
Gardner, Edmund G.
73
on function of
picturae 226 , 274, 275,
‘‘gathering,’ technique of
42, 105, 226, 309
417–418, 443
Hugh of St. Victor on
104 , 130
Moralia in Job
53, 130
see also collatio
on reading (text as mirror)
210–211, 231 , 333
Gaunilo, critique appended to
Proslogion
use of eating/digestion metaphors
206, 424
262–263
Gregory IX, Pope
346
Gavrilov, A. K.
428
Gregory Nazianzus 255, 347, 438
Geary, Patrick x
Greimas, A. J.
16, 17, 371
Geertz, Clifford 17
grid format 325–327
Gehl, Paul F.
408
of John of Garland
156–158, 162–163
genealogical diagrams (by Hugh of St. Victor)
for placement of
loci 179
294, 328
see also Hugh of St. Victor; numbers
see also Christ; Peter of Poitiers
Grosseteste, Robert 146 –149 , 204, 267, 411 , Geoffrey of Vinsauf
452
451– 452
Documentum 156
scheme of referencing symbols
138, 410
memory advice 182, 188, 324, 329, 337, 402–403 Guda (nun) 280
metaphors for memory
41, 388
Gui, Bernardo, ‘‘Life of St. Thomas Aquinas’
Gerald of Wales (Giraldus Cambrensis)
335, 454
3 –4, 6 , 8, 249, 252
gesture, rhetorical/mnemonic importance
122, 252
Guido d’Arezzo 20, 21, 22
, 133 –134 , 373, 406–407
Giordano da Pisa
131, 198, 255
, 256 , 421, 438, 439 Guidotto da Bologna
193–194
Gisze, George 49
Guilmain, Jacques 333
Glossa ordinaria 219, 265, 430, 441
Gutenberg, Johannes 37
glossed books 240, 265–271
lay-out 265–267
habit/habitus 23, 203
glosses
trained memory as (enabling moral judgment)
different scripts for text and
267, 271, 423, 436
81, 82, 85, 87– 89
organization/memorization 293
see also associative nature of recollection;
hexis
stock of, ‘‘gloss potpourri’
198–199, 421 –422
Hadoard see Florilegium Duacense
see also Bible; Glossa ordinaria; glossed books
Haimon, Bishop 218–219 , 220
Gloucester, Humphrey, Duke of
422
Hajdu, Helga 99
God
hands, pointing, in manuscript margins
324
Augustin e on way to (through memor
2 y
3 )
9 , 246
Hanning, Robert W. 448–449
as author 13
Harvey, E. Ruth 386
as beyond human knowledge
7 3, 308
Havelock, Eric 18
Creator–Majesty image 302, 448–449
Havelock the Dane 49
eternity of 239
Hawes, Stephen 136
see also gods, pagan
The Pastime of Pleasure 49–50
gods, pagan, moralized stories of
177
heads, as manuscript marginal marks 314, 324
Gospels 333–335
hearing, sense of
binding 47
see also auditory memory
concordant passages 118
heart (cor), association with memory 59–60,
of St. Augustine (of Canterbury)
166, 325– 327
386, 389
Go¨ ttweig, monastery of (Austria)
138
Hebrew, alphabet/language 137–138
Gower, John, Confessio amantis 330
names in Bible, Jerome’s gloss on
see Jerome
Gratian, Emperor 127
Heloise, Abbess 222–223, 224–226, 431
Greek(s)
Hendrickson, G. L. 213
alphabet/language 137 –
138, 147
Henry III of England 402
Roman attitudes to
93, 180
Henry, Franc¸oise 337
506
General index
Herbert of Bosham, glossed Psalter
267–268, 302
Hugh of St. Victor 8–9, 122, 187, 218,
heresies, medieval, and fundamentalism
13
379–380, 447
‘‘hermeneutical’
advice on reading/meditation 223, 231, 273,
‘‘dialogue,’ reading/composition as
211,
285, 333–335, 428
230–232, 245
attribution of De avibus to 303
distinguished from ‘‘heuristic’
see under
Chronicle see separate main heading
‘ heuristic’
compared with later scholars 158, 164, 165, 183, Herophilus of Chalcedon
59
283–285
‘‘heuristic’
compositional habits/advice 115–116, 148,
definition/etymology 23
257–260 (see also divisio; ‘‘gathering’ )
distinguished from ‘‘hermeneutical’
22, 23
and connection between memory and moral
systems 135 , 143, 150, 151–152, 217, 248, 296
character 89
hexis 85–86 , 222, 224 , 394
contemporary/later influence 200
see also habit
De archa Noe see separate main heading
Hildegard of Bingen
370–371
De archa Noe mystica
see Libellus de formatione
Hillgarth, R. J.
331
arche as main heading
historia, as one of the three levels of Biblical
Didascalicon xiii, 50, 53, 100–101, 104–105,
exegesis 55, 210
116–117, 121, 202, 206, 224, 228, 258, 401, 424
historical consciousness, medieval
239–240
Libellus de formatione arche see separate main
history, relationship with memory
380
heading
Ho lbei n, Hans, p ortr ait of G eorg e Gi s ze
on memory as basis of learning 101, 104,
49, 384
106, 134
Holcot, Robert 44 , 113, 136 , 292 –293, 407, 446
metaphors for memory 41, 46–47, 51, 116–117, Moralitas 177
135, 142, 162, 206
pictures of Charity/Idolatry
293
on mnemonic value of textual lay-out / need
Holmecultram Abbey (Cumberland)
310 , 314
always to use same codex 10, 100, 117,
Bestiary 159–160
199, 268
Homer 24, 177
, 217
and need to impress the circumstances of
homophony/puns 132 –133, 153–154 , 169, 171, 274, memorization 76, 103, 157, 342–343
416, 438–439
on notae 135–136
bilingual 162, 169, 171, 413, 447, 457
number grid system 100–106, 125–126, 156, visual 32, 175, 281–291, 314–315
160, 268, 340–341, 455
see also rebus
Preface to Chronicle see Chronicle as
main
honey see bees
heading
Honorius II, Pope 299
use of visual aids 158, 161
Honorius of Autun 442–443
see also brevity; collatio
; divisio; education;
hooks/hooking, as metaphor for recollection 78,
locus; memory-images; sophismata
268–269
Hugo Rainerus 304, 307–308
see also fishing
Hugo ‘‘the Painter,’’ pictured on manuscript 280
Horace (Q. Horatius Flaccus) 19, 177, 372
Hugutio of Pisa 236
Ars poetica 442
Huizinga, Johan 432
Hortensius, Q. 370
Hulse, S. Clark 413
house, as memory-place 173–174, 184
human figures, as manuscript decoration
Hrabanus Maurus 45, 138, 218–219, 220, 426
267–268
Hugh de Fouilloy (Hugo de Folieto) 209,
see also alphabet; heads
210–211, 427
humanism 432, 435
biography 303–304
and florilegia 227–230
De avibus 134, 303–309
identification of architectural mnemonic with
manuscript drawings 303–304
155, 315
‘‘On the dove and the hawk’’ (treatise) 294,
humors, medical theory of 60
Hunt, R. W. 146, 147
target audience 307–309, 449–450
hunting
True and False Religious 331
as metaphor for recollection 78, 201, 323–324
wheel treatises 303
scenes in manuscript margins 323
Hugh of St. Cher 161–162, 405
Huot, Sylvia 443
General index
507
Ibn Rushd see Averroe
¨ s
invention see composition
Ibn Sina see Avicenna
inventory, memory as
39, 180
iconography 23–24, 296, 336–337
see also store-house model
Idolatry, Holcot’s picture of
293
investigatio, concept of
22–23
‘ illiteracy,’ medieval understanding of
1
2, 307–309
Isaiah (Biblical book/character)
300
see also laity; literacy
see also Albertus Magnus; Jerome; Thomas
images
Aquinas
dual meaning 443
Isidore (monk), depicted as scribe
280
function, in medieval culture
6 2–63 , 67 –68,
Isidore of Seville
114 , 162 , 181 , 258, 308, 383, 443,
442–443
450, 453
see also diagrams; dream-images; memory-
Etymologiae 219
images; pictura(e); ‘‘word-pictures’
on reading 47 , 211–212
, 214– 215, 220 , 429, 439
imagination
and voces animantium 159, 160
ancient and medieval theories of
6
3–65, 67–68
on writing and purpose of letters
133 –134 , 139 ,
change in relative status of memory and
1 –
4
235–236, 275, 278, 378
‘‘deliberative’ 65, 244
see also collatio; notae
prophetic 74– 75
Italy
see also vis imaginativa
humanism 155, 227–228
imagines rerum see
memory for things
memorial artes 193–194
imitation, true vs . false 272–273
see also Rhetorica ad Herenniu
: translations
improvisation (ex tempore dicendi
) 153 –154, 206
,
iteration see recitare; ‘‘rote’ memory
255–257, 438
fully stored and effectively designed memory Jacob’s ladder, mnemonic trope of 31, 200,
essential for 253–254, 256–257
448–449
in written composition
259–260
Jacobus Publicius 190
inaccuracy (of reproduction)
111 –112, 113
Jacopa da Cessola 179
as conscious choice
113, 116
James, M. R. 327
indexing systems 128– 130, 147, 195
James of Venice 189–190
fully alphabetized 409
Japanese memory artist 94, 97
individual, concept of, in medieval culture
432
JaufreŔudel 421
see also character
Jean d’Antioche 192
inductio and memory, Albertus Magnus’s
The Book of Memory Page 89