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

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

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

Winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award and Society of Music Theory's Wallace Berry Award This bold challenge to conventional notions about medieval music disput

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