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The Ark and Immediate Revelation in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis

The Ark and Immediate Revelation in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis by hroughoutChristianhistory,Noah'sarkandtheArkoftheCovenant have served as images representing interrelated concepts of memory, preservation, election, and salvation. For instance, manyofthechurchfathersbelievedNoah'sarkforeshadowsChristand his church, perceiving typological significance in its dimensions and physical characteristics. Additionally, the ark's protection of Noah's familyand the animals during the delugewas seen to correspond to thechurch'spreservationofChristiansinhistory,"savedthroughthe wood"ofthecross. The ark's association with memory is exemplified in Hugh of St. victor'smid-twelfth-centurymnemonicstructure,"DearcaNoemystica," a textual pictura embodying a profusion of Christian doctrines and knowledge for the purposes of meditation and rhetorical invention. Here the ark of Noah, the storehouse of God's elect preserved againstthedestructionoftheflood,becomesquiteliterallyastorehouse in the mnemonic sense, an archive of knowledge. Mary Carruthers See,forexample,Origen,"HomiliesonGenesis,"inHomilies on Genesis and Exodus, trans.RonaldE.Heine(Washington,D.C.:CatholicUniversityofAmerica,1982),2.3­4; JohnCrysostom,"SixthSermononLazarusandtheRichMan,"inOn Wealth and Poverty, trans. Catharine P. Roth (Crestwood, NY: St. vladimir's Seminary Press, 1984), 113; Jerome,St. Jerome: Letters and Select Works,trans.W.H.Fremantle,vol.6ofA Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church,ed.PhilipSchaffandHenryWace (Edinburgh:T&TClark,1989),15.2;andAugustine,"ContraFaustumManichaeum,"in Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum25,ed.Josephzycha(vienna,1891),12.14. Augustine, City of God, trans. Henry Bettenson (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986), 15.26. MaryCarruthers,The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture(Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,1990),231ff. The term storehouse was frequently used in the period to refer to the archive of commonplaces--inscribedeitherinbooksorinthememory--employedasthebasisfor 103 ©2007TheUniversityofNorthCarolinaPress The Ark and Revelation in Bacon's NewAtlantis hasindicatedthesignificanceofthepunninginvolvedinHugh'smnemonicscheme,whichconjoins"arca"("chest"),Noah'sark,theArkof the Covenant, and the citadel ("arca") http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in Philology University of North Carolina Press

The Ark and Immediate Revelation in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis

DeCook, Travis.
Studies in Philology , Volume 105 (1) – Jan 10, 2008
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by hroughoutChristianhistory,Noah'sarkandtheArkoftheCovenant have served as images representing interrelated concepts of memory, preservation, election, and salvation. For instance, manyofthechurchfathersbelievedNoah'sarkforeshadowsChristand his church, perceiving typological significance in its dimensions and physical characteristics. Additionally, the ark's protection of Noah's familyand the animals during the delugewas seen to correspond to thechurch'spreservationofChristiansinhistory,"savedthroughthe wood"ofthecross. The ark's association with memory is exemplified in Hugh of St. victor'smid-twelfth-centurymnemonicstructure,"DearcaNoemystica," a textual pictura embodying a profusion of Christian doctrines and knowledge for the purposes of meditation and rhetorical invention. Here the ark of Noah, the storehouse of God's elect preserved againstthedestructionoftheflood,becomesquiteliterallyastorehouse in the mnemonic sense, an archive of knowledge. Mary Carruthers See,forexample,Origen,"HomiliesonGenesis,"inHomilies on Genesis and Exodus, trans.RonaldE.Heine(Washington,D.C.:CatholicUniversityofAmerica,1982),2.3­4; JohnCrysostom,"SixthSermononLazarusandtheRichMan,"inOn Wealth and Poverty, trans. Catharine P. Roth (Crestwood, NY: St. vladimir's Seminary Press, 1984), 113; Jerome,St. Jerome: Letters and Select Works,trans.W.H.Fremantle,vol.6ofA Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church,ed.PhilipSchaffandHenryWace (Edinburgh:T&TClark,1989),15.2;andAugustine,"ContraFaustumManichaeum,"in Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum25,ed.Josephzycha(vienna,1891),12.14. Augustine, City of God, trans. Henry Bettenson (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986), 15.26. MaryCarruthers,The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture(Cambridge:CambridgeUniversityPress,1990),231ff. The term storehouse was frequently used in the period to refer to the archive of commonplaces--inscribedeitherinbooksorinthememory--employedasthebasisfor 103 ©2007TheUniversityofNorthCarolinaPress The Ark and Revelation in Bacon's NewAtlantis hasindicatedthesignificanceofthepunninginvolvedinHugh'smnemonicscheme,whichconjoins"arca"("chest"),Noah'sark,theArkof the Covenant, and the citadel ("arca")

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