IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 222: Mnemonics in Word and Image, I
Monday 2 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Huygens ING, De Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen |
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Organisers: | Seb Falk, Girton College, University of Cambridge Amanda Gerber, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles Irene A. O'Daly, Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen (ING - KNAW), Amsterdam |
Moderator/Chair: | Laura Cleaver, Department of History of Art & Architecture, Trinity College Dublin |
Paper 222-a | Cues as Clues: Reconstructing the Use of Stemmatic Diagrams in the Medieval Classroom (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Philosophy, Rhetoric |
Paper 222-b | Verses to Remember and Diagrams to Forget: The Case of Aristotle's Figures (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Manuscripts and Palaeography, Philosophy |
Paper 222-c | Explaining and Recalling: Students' Diagrammatic Glosses in Manuscripts of Roman Law (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Abstract | Medieval manuscripts are replete with mnemonic devices. Chronologies, scientific speculations, schoolroom commonplaces from grammatical and rhetorical books, and even material for prayers and sermons were visually and verbally arranged to facilitate ease of recollection. These sessions aim to assess the respective impact of graphical and discursive mnemonic models. In this first of two sessions, we look at the diverse applications of stemmatic and tree-diagrams in philosophical and theological studies. They were used as mnemonic tools, but also as compositional prompts. It examines their development in the medieval classroom, before looking at their employment in other contexts, such as sermon-writing. |