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Moving into scholastic theology, there was an increased need for the art of memory as knowledge increased. The schemes of moral theology became more complex and more rules were placed upon man for salvation in the Medieval Church which placed a new emphasis on memory. Yates comments, “…the principles of artificial memory, as understood in the Middle Ages, would stimulate the intense visualization of many similitudes in the intense effort to hold in memory the scheme of salvation, and the complex network of virtues and vices and their rewards and punishments…”

Psalms Required

At this time, monks in the monastery were required to learn, by heart, all the Psalms, as evidenced by The Rule of Ferreolus. This task, “…commonly took two to three years, though gifted individuals could manage it in six months.”

Some of the art coming out of this period may be the result of the mnemonic principle to devise images that are shocking or unusual, such as Dante’s Inferno. It is an interesting proposition to consider that memory plays a role in, “…the strange figures to be seen on the pages of manuscripts and in all forms of mediaeval art [are] not so much the revelation of a tortured psychology as evidence that the Middle Ages, when men had to remember, followed classical rules for making memorable images…”

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