What is "mnemotechnic"

Usage examples of "mnemotechnic".

Within western culture, there is a clear history of this mnemotechnic tradition, running back to Greek times, though the written record of the method is not Greek but Roman, and first appears in De Oratore, a famous text on the art of rhetoric - that is, of argument and debate - by the Roman politician and writer Cicero.

But where in the past the exponents of the mnemotechnic art might have envisaged themselves as spectators at such a theatre, looking inward to the stage as an elaborate set full of memory cues, in the Renaissance memory theatres the mnemotechnician was supposed to look outward from the stage, the actor facing an audience whose location in their ordered ranks of seats provided the sequence clues.

Such mnemotechnics were the forerunners of a tradition which ran through the medieval and Renaissance periods and is still alive today.

But where in the past the exponents of the mnemotechnic art might have envisaged themselves as spectators at such a theatre, looking inward to the stage as an elaborate set full of memory cues, in the Renaissance memory theatres the mnemotechnician was supposed to look outward from the stage, the actor facing an audience whose location in their ordered ranks of seats provided the sequence clues.

Such mnemotechnics were the forerunners of a tradition which ran through the medieval and Renaissance periods and is still alive today.

Within western culture, there is a clear history of this mnemotechnic tradition, running back to Greek times, though the written record of the method is not Greek but Roman, and first appears in De Oratore, a famous text on the art of rhetoric - that is, of argument and debate - by the Roman politician and writer Cicero.