# Frances Yates **Domain:** Intellectual History / Memory **Doc Type:** Historian Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[The Art of Memory]], [[Memory Architecture]], [[Cognitive Exteriorization]] --- ## Definition Frances A. Yates (1899–1981) was a British historian whose work recovered Renaissance traditions of memory, hermeticism and intellectual technique. ## Corpus Context [[The Art of Memory]] supplies a deep historical ancestor for spatialized cognition and [[Cognitive Exteriorization]]. ## Relationships [[The Art of Memory]], [[Memory Architecture]], [[Cognitive Exteriorization]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]