The Memory Arts in Renaissance England

William E. Engel is Nick B. Williams Professor of Literature at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. He is the author of several books, including Early Modern Poetics in Melville and Poe: Memory, Melancholy, and the Emblematic Tradition (2012). He is also on the editorial board of Renaissance Quarterly. Rory Loughnane is Assistant Research Professor in the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and Associate Editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare. He is the co-editor of Late Shakespeare, 1608-1613 (with Andrew J. Power, Cambridge, 2013), Celtic Shakespeare: The Bard and the Borderers (with Willy Maley, 2013) and Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England (with Edel Semple, 2013). Grant Williams is Associate Professor of English at Carleton University, Canada. He is the co-editor of Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture: Lethe's Legacies (with Christopher Ivic, 2004), Ars Reminiscendi: Mind and Memory in Renaissance Culture (with Donald Beecher, 2009) and Taking Exception to the Law: Materializing Injustice in Early Modern English Literature (with Donald Beecher, Travis DeCook and Andrew Wallace, 2015).

'This admirable anthology of vernacular sources is far more than a compilation of technical treatises on the 'art of memory', but is rather a bold, interdisciplinary attempt to suggest the complexity of what the authors call 'English mnemonic culture'. Stretching from early sixteenth-century humanism to the Royal Society, this collection traces the 'mnemonic episteme' through works of literature, poetics, rhetoric, philosophy, medicine, history, religion, and the visual arts. From emblems to architecture, poetry to universal language projects, The Memory Arts in Renaissance England shows that the culture of early modern England was profoundly shaped by memory and mnemonic practices.' Stephen Clucas, Birkbeck, University of London

• List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; A note on abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. The Art of Memory: Introduction to Part I; 1.1 Stephen Hawes, The Pastime of Pleasure (1509); 1.2 [Laurence Andrewe], The Mirror of the World (1527); 1.3 Peter of Ravenna, The Phoenix (1548); 1.4 Guglielmo Gratarolo, The Castle of Memory (1562); 1.5 Hugh Plat, Jewel House of Art and Nature (1594); 1.6 William Basse, A Help to Memory and Discourse (1620); 1.7 John Willis, The Art of Memory (1621, 1661); 1.8 Henry Herdson, Ars Memoriae; the Art of Memory Made Plain (1651); 1.9 Richard Saunders, Art of Memory (1671); 1.10 Marius D'Assigny, The Art of Memory (1697); Part II. Rhetoric and Poetics: Introduction to Part II; 2.1 Anon., Table of Cebes (1531); 2.2 Thomas Wilson, The Art of Rhetoric (1553); 2.3 George Puttenham, The Art of English Poesy (1589); 2.4 Henry Peacham, The Garden of Eloquence (1593); 2.5 Philip Sidney, The Defence of Poesy (1595); 2.6 Francis Meres, Palladis Tamia (1598); 2.7 Samuel Daniel, Musophilus (1599); 2.8 Miles Sandys, Prudence (1634); 2.9 Ben Jonson, Timber, or, Discoveries (1641); 2.10 Alexander Ross, Mystagogus Poeticus (1648); Part III. Education and Science: Introduction to Part III; 3.1 Thomas Elyot, The Governor (1531); 3.2 Roger Ascham, The Schoolmaster (1570); 3.3 Levinus Lemnius, The Touchstone of Complexions (1576); 3.4 William Kempe, The Education of Children (1588); 3.5 John Brinsley, Ludus Literarius (1612); 3.6 Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621); 3.7 Thomas Sprat, The History of the Royal Society (1667); 3.8 John Wilkins, An Essay Towards a Real Character (1668); 3.9 Obadiah Walker, Of Education (1673); 3.10 Robert Hooke, 'An Hypothetical Explication of Memory' (1682); Part IV. History and Philosophy: Introduction to Part IV; 4.1 Lodowick Lloyd, The Pilgrimage of Princes (1573); 4.2 William Camden, Remains Concerning Britain (1605); 4.3 Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning (1605); 4.4 Pierre Charron, Of Wisdom (1608); 4.5 John Weever, Ancient Funeral Monuments (1631); 4.6 Edward Reynolds, A Treatise of the Passions and Faculties (1640); 4.7 Thomas Fuller, Selected Works; 4.8 Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises (1644); 4.9 Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651); 4.10 William Dugdale, Baronage of England (1675–76); Part V. Religion and Devotion: Introduction to Part V; 5.1 Thomas More, A Treatise (Unfinished) upon these Words of Holy Scripture (1522); 5.2 John Foxe, Acts and Monuments (1563); 5.3 Thomas Playfere, The Pathway to Perfection (1597); 5.4 Joseph Hall, Selected Works; 5.5 Richard Day, Book of Christian Prayers (1608); 5.6 Daniel Featley, 'Four Rows of Precious Stones' (1610); 5.7 Lewis Bayly, The Practice of Piety (1613); 5.8 John Donne, 'Sermon, preached at Lincoln's Inn' (1649); 5.9 Stephen Jerome, A Ministers Mite (1650); 5.10 E. M., Ashrae (1665); Part VI. Literature: Introduction to Part VI; Poetry; 6.1 John Skelton, 'Upon a Dead Man's Head' (1527); 6.2 Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen (1590); 6.3 Anthony Sherley, Wit's New Dial (1604); 6.4 Richard Niccols, Mirror for Magistrates (1610); 6.5 Abraham Holland, 'A Funeral Elegy' (1626); 6.6 George Herbert, The Temple (1633); 6.7 Francis Quarles, Emblems (1635); 6.8 Mary Fage, Fame's Rule (1637); 6.9 Margaret Cavendish, Selected Works; 6.10 John Milton, Paradise Lost (1674); Plays and prose; 6.11 Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller (1594); 6.12 William Shakespeare, Selected Works; 6.13 John Webster, Selected Works; 6.14 Thomas Tomkis, Lingua: or the Combat of the Tongue (1607); 6.15 Mary Wroth, Urania (1621); 6.16 John Earle, Microcosmography (1628); 6.17 John Jones, Adrasta (1635); 6.18 Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Urn-Burial (1658); 6.19 Anon., Crackfart and Tony; or, Knave and Fool (1680); 6.20 John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress (1681); Index.