List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; A note on abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. The Art of Memory: Introduction to Part I; 1.1 Stephen Hawes, The Pastime of Pleasure (1509); 1.2 [Laurence Andrewe], The Mirror of the World (1527); 1.3 Peter of Ravenna, The Phoenix (1548); 1.4 Guglielmo Gratarolo, The Castle of Memory (1562); 1.5 Hugh Plat, Jewel House of Art and Nature (1594); 1.6 William Basse, A Help to Memory and Discourse (1620); 1.7 John Willis, The Art of Memory (1621, 1661); 1.8 Henry Herdson, Ars Memoriae; the Art of Memory Made Plain (1651); 1.9 Richard Saunders, Art of Memory (1671); 1.10 Marius D'Assigny, The Art of Memory (1697); Part II. Rhetoric and Poetics: Introduction to Part II; 2.1 Anon., Table of Cebes (1531); 2.2 Thomas Wilson, The Art of Rhetoric (1553); 2.3 George Puttenham, The Art of English Poesy (1589); 2.4 Henry Peacham, The Garden of Eloquence (1593); 2.5 Philip Sidney, The Defence of Poesy (1595); 2.6 Francis Meres, Palladis Tamia (1598); 2.7 Samuel Daniel, Musophilus (1599); 2.8 Miles Sandys, Prudence (1634); 2.9 Ben Jonson, Timber, or, Discoveries (1641); 2.10 Alexander Ross, Mystagogus Poeticus (1648); Part III. Education and Science: Introduction to Part III; 3.1 Thomas Elyot, The Governor (1531); 3.2 Roger Ascham, The Schoolmaster (1570); 3.3 Levinus Lemnius, The Touchstone of Complexions (1576); 3.4 William Kempe, The Education of Children (1588); 3.5 John Brinsley, Ludus Literarius (1612); 3.6 Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621); 3.7 Thomas Sprat, The History of the Royal Society (1667); 3.8 John Wilkins, An Essay Towards a Real Character (1668); 3.9 Obadiah Walker, Of Education (1673); 3.10 Robert Hooke, 'An Hypothetical Explication of Memory' (1682); Part IV. History and Philosophy: Introduction to Part IV; 4.1 Lodowick Lloyd, The Pilgrimage of Princes (1573); 4.2 William Camden, Remains Concerning Britain (1605); 4.3 Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning (1605); 4.4 Pierre Charron, Of Wisdom (1608); 4.5 John Weever, Ancient Funeral Monuments (1631); 4.6 Edward Reynolds, A Treatise of the Passions and Faculties (1640); 4.7 Thomas Fuller, Selected Works; 4.8 Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises (1644); 4.9 Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651); 4.10 William Dugdale, Baronage of England (1675-76); Part V. Religion and Devotion: Introduction to Part V; 5.1 Thomas More, A Treatise (Unfinished) upon these Words of Holy Scripture (1522); 5.2 John Foxe, Acts and Monuments (1563); 5.3 Thomas Playfere, The Pathway to Perfection (1597); 5.4 Joseph Hall, Selected Works; 5.5 Richard Day, Book of Christian Prayers (1608); 5.6 Daniel Featley, 'Four Rows of Precious Stones' (1610); 5.7 Lewis Bayly, The Practice of Piety (1613); 5.8 John Donne, 'Sermon, preached at Lincoln's Inn' (1649); 5.9 Stephen Jerome, A Ministers Mite (1650); 5.10 E. M., Ashrae (1665); Part VI. Literature: Introduction to Part VI; Poetry; 6.1 John Skelton, 'Upon a Dead Man's Head' (1527); 6.2 Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen (1590); 6.3 Anthony Sherley, Wit's New Dial (1604); 6.4 Richard Niccols, Mirror for Magistrates (1610); 6.5 Abraham Holland, 'A Funeral Elegy' (1626); 6.6 George Herbert, The Temple (1633); 6.7 Francis Quarles, Emblems (1635); 6.8 Mary Fage, Fame's Rule (1637); 6.9 Margaret Cavendish, Selected Works; 6.10 John Milton, Paradise Lost (1674); Plays and prose; 6.11 Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller (1594); 6.12 William Shakespeare, Selected Works; 6.13 John Webster, Selected Works; 6.14 Thomas Tomkis, Lingua: or the Combat of the Tongue (1607); 6.15 Mary Wroth, Urania (1621); 6.16 John Earle, Microcosmography (1628); 6.17 John Jones, Adrasta (1635); 6.18 Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Urn-Burial (1658); 6.19 Anon., Crackfart and Tony; or, Knave and Fool (1680); 6.20 John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress (1681); Index.