Mary Carruthers

Mary Jean Carruthers, AAAS, APS, FBA (born January 15, 1941) Remarque Professor Emeritus of English at New York University and a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

A leading historian of the European Middle Ages, Carruthers is primarily concerned with late classical and medieval ideas about memory and human reasoning, including rhetoric and meditation, but has also written extensively on the history of spirituality and the nature of composition. Provided by Wikipedia