
Mary J. Carruthers
Professor Emeritus
The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press, 2013.
"Virtue, intention and the mind’s eye in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde." In C. Brewer and B. Windeatt, eds. Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Middle English Literature, pp. 73- 87. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2013.
"The ‘Pictures’ of Jerusalem in Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Laud Misc. 156." In Imagining Jerusalem in the Medieval West, ed. Lucy Donkin and Hanna Vorholt, pp. 97- 121. Proceedings of the British Academy 175. Oxford University Press, 2012.
"The concept of ductus, or, journeying through a work of art." In M. Carruthers, ed. Rhetoric Beyond Words, pp. 190- 213. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Rhetoric Beyond Words: Delight and Persuasion in the Arts of the Middle Ages. ed. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
"Ars oblivionalis, ars inveniendi: The Cherub Figure and the Arts of Memory." Gesta 48 (2009): 1-19.
The Book of Memory: Second Edition. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
"Mechanisms for the transmission of culture: the role of 'place' in the arts of memory." In Translatio, the Transmission of Culture in the Middle Ages. ed Laura Hollengreen. Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Turnhout: Brepols), 2008: 1-26.
"On affliction and reading, weeping and argument: Chaucer's lachrymose Troilus in context." Representations 93 (2006): 1-21.
The Medieval Craft of Memory: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures. ed. with J. M. Ziolkowski. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric. and the Making of Images. 400-1200. Cambridge University Press, 1998.