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@PHDTHESIS{Gormans:61189,
      author       = {Gormans, Andreas},
      othercontributors = {Holländer, Hans},
      title        = {{G}eometria et ars memorativa : {S}tudien zur {B}edeutung
                      von {K}reis und {Q}uadrat als {B}estandteile
                      mittelalterlicher {M}nemonik und ihrer {W}irkungsgeschichte
                      an ausgewählten {B}eispielen},
      address      = {Aachen},
      publisher    = {Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen University},
      reportid     = {RWTH-CONV-122869},
      year         = {2003},
      note         = {Aachen, Techn. Hochsch., Diss., 1999},
      abstract     = {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.},
      keywords     = {Quadrat <Motiv> (SWD) / Kreis <Motiv> (SWD) / Kunst (SWD) /
                      Mnemotechnik (SWD) / Geschichte (SWD)},
      cin          = {700000},
      ddc          = {700},
      cid          = {$I:(DE-82)700000_20140620$},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
      urn          = {urn:nbn:de:hbz:82-opus-5518},
      url          = {https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/61189},
}