The Big Idea
A broad list of books about how learning and memory and how they were taught over time.
Good Online Library for Original Texts
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Logic and Rhetoric Overviews
- Logic Book by Peter Kreft
- The Theology of Post-Reformation Lutheranism Volume I Covers the philosophy and training of theologians.
- Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times by George A. Kennedy https://www.amazon.com/dp/0807847690?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_apin_dp_MZ4XA5H59H7XZAJ5WZWQ&ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_apin_dp_MZ4XA5H59H7XZAJ5WZWQ&social_share=cm_sw_r_ffobk_apin_dp_MZ4XA5H59H7XZAJ5WZWQ&bestFormat=true
- A History of Renaissance Rhetoric, 1380-1620 by Peter Mack https://www.amazon.com/dp/0199597286?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_apin_dp_Q85NFCS8B3X3Y3T7XWKV&ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_apin_dp_Q85NFCS8B3X3Y3T7XWKV&social_share=cm_sw_r_ffobk_apin_dp_Q85NFCS8B3X3Y3T7XWKV&bestFormat=true
Memory Historical Overviews
- Memory in Historical Perspective - Douglas Herrmann
- The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture - Mary Carruthers
- The Art of Memory - Frances Yates
- Memorize the Bible! The Comprehensive Guide to Memorizing Bible Verses, Facts and More! by Blair Kasfeldt
- Memory: A History (Oxford Philosophical Concepts) 1st Edition by Dmitri Nikulin
- Mastering the Mind - Saul Clarke
- Writing on the Tablet of the Heart: Origins of Scripture and Literature - David M Carr
Basic Memory Books
- The Memory Palace by Lewis Smile
- Remember, Remember, Ed Cooke
- Moonwalking with Einstein - Joshua Foer
- Unlock Your Amazing Memory
- The Victorious Mind - Anthony Metivier
- Memory Craft - Lynne Kelly
- How to Remember Anything - Mark Channon
Jewish and Early Christianity
- Memory and Manuscript: Oral Tradition and Written Transmission in Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity - Birger Gerhardsson - On Amazon
- Memory and tradition in Israel - Childs, Brevard S- https://archive.org/details/memorytraditioni0000chil/page/n5/mode/2up
- Jesus in the memory of the early church : essays - Dahl, Nils Alstrup - https://archive.org/details/jesusinmemoryofe0000dahl
Greco - Roman
Aristotle
the Organon - Organon-Aristotle.pdf
Cicero
Rhetorica Ad Herennium: The Ultimate Memory & Speaking Guide?
Quintilian
Medieval
Rhetoric in the Middle Ages
Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: A History of Rhetorical Theory from St. Augustine to the Renaissance New Ed Edition by James J. Murphy https://www.amazon.com/dp/0520044061?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_apin_dp_DD0ZF1C74GJEX8BGX5GZ&ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_apin_dp_DD0ZF1C74GJEX8BGX5GZ&social_share=cm_sw_r_ffobk_apin_dp_DD0ZF1C74GJEX8BGX5GZ&bestFormat=true
Augustine
De doctrina christiana. Especially book 10 on memory.
Martianus Capella
The Marriage of Philology and Mercury - first set formalization of the seven liberal arts
Renaissance
Renaissance Eloquence: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Renaissance Rhetoric First Edition
Robert Fludd
Mnemonic Methods - Robert Fludd - https://www.lewismasonic.co.uk/general/mnemonic-methods.htm
Peter of Ravenna
The Phoenix - https://magneticmemorymethod.samcart.com/products/phoenix-reborn-main/
Ramon Llull
https://www.magneticmemorymethod.com/ramon-llull-memory-wheel/
Petra Ramus
- The Logike of the Most Excellent Philosopher P. Ramvs
- The way to Geometry
- Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason - Ong - https://a.co/d/03awEKjr
- Commonplace learning : Ramism and its German ramifications, 1543-1630 - Hotson, Howard - https://archive.org/details/commonplacelearn0000hots - On Amazon
Jacobus Publicius
The Mnemonic Alphabet - https://magneticmemorymethod.samcart.com/products/rules-reborn-main
Johannes Quenstedt
Philip Melanchthon’s Rhetoric text books
Institutiones Rhetorices (1523) - https://rhetoric.byu.edu/Primary%20Texts/Melanchthon-Intitutiones.htm
Loci Communes - 1521
Need to try and find the full list of his Rhetoric and teaching text books. A lot of them are not in English need to try and find how to get them.
St. Ignatius
[The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius](https://a.co/d/0iqFuIlA](https://a.co/d/0iqFuIlA)
Matteo Ricci
The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci - Jonathan Spence
Lutheran Orthodoxy
Johann Gerhard
Method of Theological Study