Editing Thomas Bradwardine (section)

==Art of memory==
Bradwardine was also a practitioner and exponent of the [[art of memory]], a loosely associated group of mnemonic principles and techniques used to organise memory impressions, improve recall, and assist in the combination and 'invention' of ideas. His ''De Memoria Artificiali'' (''c.'' 1335) discusses memory training current during his time.<ref>Mary Carruthers, ''The Book of Memory'', Cambridge, 1990, p. 130</ref><ref>Edith Wilks Dolnikowski, "De Memoria Artificiali: Time and Memory in the Thought of Thomas Bradwardine." In: ''Constructions of Time in the Late Middle Ages''. Ed. Carol Poster and Richard Utz. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1997. Pp. 197–203.</ref>

Bradwardine's ''On Acquiring a Trained Memory'', translated by Mary Carruthers, contains, as Carruthers describes it, was similar to [[Cicero|Cicero's]] work on the art of memory.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Carruthers |first=Mary J. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49627682 |title=The Medieval Craft of Memory: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |others=Jan M. Ziolkowski |year=2002 |isbn=0-8122-3676-9 |location=Philadelphia, Pa. |pages=205–214 |oclc=49627682}}</ref> She states, "Bradwardine's art is notable for its detailed description of several techniques for fixing and recalling specific material through the use of graphically detailed, brilliantly colored, and vigorously animated mental images, grouped together in a succession of ''pictures'' or organized scenes, whose internal order recalls not just particular content but the relationship among its parts."<ref name=":3"/> She acknowledges this being similar to active imaging described by Cicero, along with the memory devices for things and words being changed in rhetoric, but are distinct since the imagery Bradwardine uses is decidedly medieval in nature.<ref name=":3"/>