I wanted to share with all an excerpt from Lara Kelland's definition of "memory" which mentions Frances Yates' discussion about the art of memory from the keyword glossary in Theories of Media:
"Frances Yates chronicles the historical usages of memory in rhetoric in her article Three Latin Sources for the Classical Art of Memory. Utilizing a spatial conceptualization of mnemonic processes, Roman rhetors were capable of recounting lengthy orations with little difficulty or error. By a process of visualization of the space of memory, one could 'place' elements in a linear movement throughout the conceptualized architecture and recapture them through 'moving' again through this image. Yates also likens the mnemonic process to linguistic structures, stating "(t)he art of memory is like an inner writing" [2] . By imagining a spatial inscription or attribution, the orator would be able to revisit the symbolic recollection and summon up the information."
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