James J. Murphy

Latin Rhetoric and Education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this volume deal with the history of rhetoric and education for the thousand years from the early Middle Ages to the European Renaissance. They represent the author's pioneering efforts over four decades to piece together a kind of mosaic which will provide elements necessary to construct a history of that thousand years of language a

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000946666
• Artikelnr.: 68436164

Autorenporträt

James J. Murphy is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of English, University of California, Davis, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. The Middle Ages: Western rhetoric in the Middle Ages;
The rhetorical lore of the Boceras in Byhrtferth's Manual; The teaching of
Latin as a second language in the 12th century; Two medieval textbooks in
debate; The scholastic condemnation of rhetoric in the commentary of Giles
of Rome on the Rhetoric of Aristotle; Dictamen as a developed genre: the
14th century 'Brevis doctrina dictaminis' of Ventura da Bergamo (with David
Thomson); Quintilian's influence on the teaching of speaking and writing in
the Middle Ages and Renaissance; Poetry without genre: the metapoetics of
the Middle Ages; Rhetoric in 14th-century Oxford. Applications of Latin
Rhetoric in Medieval English Literature: A new look at Chaucer and the
Rhetoricians; John Gower's Confessio Amantis and the first discussion of
rhetoric in the English language; Rhetoric and dialectic in The Owl and the
Nightingale. The Renaissance: One thousand neglected authors: the scope and
importance of Renaisance rhetoric; Rhetoric in the earliest days of
printing, 1465-1500; Caxton's two choices: 'Modern' and 'Medieval' rhetoric
in Traversagni's Nova Rhetorica and the anonymous Court of Sapience;
Ciceronian influences in Latin rhetorical compendia of the 15th century;
Raffaele Regio's 1492 Quaestio doubting Cicero's authorship of the
Rhetorica ad Herennium: introduction and text (with Michael Winterbottom);
The double revolution of the first rhetorical textbook published in
England: The Margarita Eloquentiae of Gulielmus Traversagnus (1479);
Antonio Nebrija in the European rhetorical tradition; The relation between
Omer Talon's Institutiones Oratoriae (1545) and the Rhetorica (1548)
attributed to him; Index.