Medieval Jewish traditions on memorization in medical and magical texts - Gerrit Bos

Medieval Jewish traditions on memorization in medical and magical texts, Prof Gerrit Bos. Part of the Workshop 'Science versus popular culture in medieval Jewish society' on 9 November 2015, organised by the ERC Calendars Project at the Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, UCL. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish/research/research-pro/calendars-antiquity-middle-ages Prof. Gerrit Bos discusses medieval Jewish traditions for strengthening memory, including chanting, medical and magical recipes and mnemonics of places, and concludes that it was practice and experience more than considerations of principle that determined which techniques were used.