The Craft of Thought, first published in 1998, is a companion to Mary Carruthers' earlier study of memory in medieval culture, The Book of Memory. This more rec

Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally chang

"A volume that will interest a wide spectrum of readers."—Patrick Geary, University of California, Los Angeles

This book analyses collaborative activities across the visual arts to show the power of non-verbal rhetoric in the Middle Ages.

The development of a coherent, cohesive visual system of mathematics brought about a seminal shift in approaches towards abstract thinking in western Europe. Ve