Memory in Medieval Culture w/ Dr. Kimberly Rivers

In this episode, I speak with Dr. Kimberly Rivers, professor of history and author of “Preaching the Memory of Virtue and Vice” In this episode, we talk about memory in the middle ages, and some of the mnemonics they would have used.

Dr. Kimberly Rivers

PUBLICATIONS - BOOKS

• Preaching the Memory of Virtue and Vice: Memory, Images, and Preaching in the Late Middle Ages
• Doležalová, Lucie, Michal Dragoun, and Kimberly Rivers. Passionate Copying in Late Medieval Bohemia: The Case of Crux de Telcz (1434-1504). Prague medieval studies, 1. Prague: Karolinum Press, 2021.  

PUBLICATIONS–REFEREED ARTICLES

• Kimberly Rivers, “Johannes Sintram as Scribe.” In Passionate Copying in Late Medieval Bohemia: The Case of Crux de Telcz (1434-1504), by Lucie Doležalová with contributions by Michal Dragoun and Kimberly Rivers. Prague Medieval Studies, 1. Prague: Krem, 2021.
• “How a Franciscan Preacher Memorized the Decretals in the Later Middle Ages: Johannes Sintram’s Mnemonic Diagram.” Submitted to volume Memory in the Middle Ages, edited by Lucie Doležalová and Jan Čermák
• “The Book, the Song, and the Letter: Preaching Mary in Two Sermons by the Franciscan Johannes Sintram (d. 1450).” In The Medieval Franciscans and the Virgin Mary, ed. Steven J. McMichael (Leiden: Brill, 2019), 392-409.
• "Composition and Career: The Composite Manuscripts of Johannes Sintram, O.F.M.," in Late Medieval Personal Miscellanies, ed. Sabrina Corbellini, Giovanna Murano and Giacomo Signore (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), 145-159.
• “Learning and Remembering Canon Law in the Fifteenth Century: The Ars et doctrina studendi et docendi of Juan Alfonso de Benavente,” in From Learning to Love: Schools, Law, and Pastoral Care in the Middle Ages. Essays in Honour of Joseph W. Goering, ed. Tristan Sharp in collaboration with Isabelle Cochelin, Abigail Firey, Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Giulio Silano (Toronto: PIMS Press, 2017), 266-290.
• “Mythography and the Virtues and Vices,” Classical and Medieval Literary Criticism (CMLC) 159 (2014): 281-97. [Reprint of Chapter 7: France, Preaching the Memory of Virtue and Vice (Turnhout: Brepols Press, 2010).
• “Remembering Canon and Civil Law around 1400,” Nottingham Medieval Studies: Inventing a Path. Studies in Medieval Rhetoric in Honour of Mary Carruthers 56 (2012): 265-80.
• “Memory and History in the Middle Ages,” in Writing the History of Memory, ed. Stefan Berger and William Niven (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), 47-64.
• "Creating the Memory of God in a Medieval Miscellany: Melk MS 1075, Jean de Hesdin (fl. 1350-1370), and Late Medieval Monastic Reform," in Medieval Manuscript Miscellanies: Composition, Authorship, Use, ed. Lucie Doležalová and Kimberly Rivers (Krems: Medium Aevum Quotidianum, 2013), 112-38.
• “Writing the Memory of the Virtues and Vices in Johannes Sintram’s (d. 1450) Preaching Aids,” in The Making of Memory in the Middle Ages, ed. Lucie Doležalová (Leiden: Brill, 2009), 32-48.
• The Dangers of the Imagination: Mental Images in Mnemonic Texts, 1300-1700,” in Image Makers and Image Breakers: Proceedings of a St. Michael’s College Symposium (1-2 March 2002), ed. Jennifer A. Harris (New York, Ottawa, Toronto: Legas, 2003), 93-107.
• “The Fear of Divine Vengeance: Mnemonic Images as a Guide to Conscience in the Late Middle Ages,” in Fear and Its Representations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. Anne Scott and Cynthia Kosso (Turnhout: Brepols, 2002), 66-91.
• Introduction to and translation of memory section of Francesc Eiximenis’ Ars praedicandi for The Medieval Craft of Memory: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures, ed. Mary Carruthers and Jan Ziolkowski (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), 189-204.
• “Memory, Division, and the Organization of Knowledge in the Middle Ages,” in Pre-modern Encyclopaedic Texts, edited by Peter Binkley (Leiden: Brill, 1997), 147-158.