Includes bibliographical references (pages 615-637) and index.
pt. 1: The critical texts of antiquity -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Cicero -- Pliny and Roman naturalists on memory; Borges's Funes the Memorious -- Plotinus and the early neo-Platonists on memory and mind -- Augustine: the early works -- Augustine's De Trinitate: on memory, time and the presentness of the past -- pt. 2: The practice of memory during the period of transition from classical antiquity to the Christian monastic centuries: The early monastic practice of memory: Gregory the Great; Benedict and his rule -- Bede, monastic grammatica and reminiscence -- Monastic memory in service of oblivion -- Cistercian 'blanched' memory and St. Bernard: the associative, textual memory and the purified past -- Twelfth-century Cistercians: the Boethian legacy and the physiological issues in Greco-Arabic medical writings -- pt. 3:The beginnings of the scholastic understanding of memory -- Abelard -- Memory and its uses: the relationship between a theory of memory and twelfth-century historiography -- pt. 4: Aristotle neo-Platonised: the revival of Aristotle and the development of scholastic theories of memory -- Arabic and Jewish translations of sources from antiquity: their use by Latin Christians -- John Blund, David of Dinant, the De potentiis animae et obiectis -- John of La Rochelle -- Averroes -- Albert the Great -- Thomas Aquinas -- pt. 5: Later medieval theories of memory: the via antiqua and the via moderna -- John Duns Scotus -- William of Ockham -- The legacy of the via antiqua and the via moderna in the Renaissance and beyond -- Conclusion: An all too brief account of modern theories of mind and remembering.