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| Datum: | 2003 |
| Titel: | Geometria et ars memorativa : Studien zur Bedeutung von Kreis und Quadrat als Bestandteile mittelalterlicher Mnemonik und ihrer Wirkungsgeschichte an ausgewählten Beispielen |
| Mitwirkende: | Holländer, Hans |
| Autor*in: | Gormans, Andreas |
| Beschreibung: | The transdisciplinary study supplies a contribution to the examination of the mnemonic significance of medieval and modern illustrations which are composed of a circle and a square. Scrutinizing various examples, the present investigation discusses the origin, meaning and history of those graphic representations in which cosmological tetrads and such which are concerned with the history of salvation are centred around a central idea, notion or picture. These diagrams are supposed to convert the initial inner and mental seeing of the ars memorativa into an external physical one. They substitute whole texts or certain passages and provide a reductive synopsis of the current idea of the world, its structure and characteristics or central axioms of Christian belief. While frequently changing their contextual meaning, they appear, for instance, in encyclopaedic or liturgical medieval manuscripts, on reliquaries and candlesticks or monumentalized rose-windows. These different medieval forms create an own tradition which does not suddenly end in postmedieval times since the power of imagination is one of the basic elements of memory. Proofs for this are, for example, towers and castles of knowledge as well as mnemonic theatres; they all are three-dimensional pictural architectures which are so mnemonic as the two-dimensional diagrams upon which they are erected. This is also exemplified by maps representing the world, continents or nations of the Netherlands in the 17th century with their explanatory peripheral vignettes or continental pictures of those times which are comparable with the former. Although the diagrammatic structures the cited architectures and pictures consist of vanish in the 18th century, there can be no doubt of their importance in medieval times. The diagrammatic ars memorativa in the Middle Ages has to be regarded as the most important element of a highly advanced pictural mnemotechnique which serves Christian religion both as a monotheistic religion of memory and as a backwards oriented understanding of sciences which believes in ancient authorities. Apart from these facts, mnemonic diagrams principally testify the significance of pictural thinking in the Middle Ages; moreover, they are essential components of a culture history of knowledge, its visual presentation, tradition and fixing, of their methods and their pictural instruments. |
| URI: | https://www.amad.org/jspui/handle/123456789/66697 |
| Quelle: | http://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/61189 http://publications.rwth-aachen.de/search?p=id:%22RWTH-CONV-122869%22 http://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/61189/files/Gormans_Andreas.pdf |
| AMAD ID: | 520501 |
| Enthalten in den Sammlungen: | BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) General history of Europe |
