The rhetoric of Cicero in its medieval and early Renaissance commentary tradition / edited by Virginia Cox, John O. Ward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cox, Virginia.

Ward, John O., 1940-

Series:

Brill's companions to the Christian tradition 1871-6377 ; v. 2.

Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, 1871-6377 ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cicero, Marcus Tullius--Criticism and interpretation.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Rhetoric, Medieval.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xvii, 545 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Summary:

This multi-authored volume, by an authoritative team of international scholars, examines the transmission of Ciceronian rhetoric in medieval and early Renaissance Europe, concentrating on the fortunes, in particular, on the two dominant classical rhetorical textbooks of the time, Cicero's early De inventione, and the pseudo-Ciceronian Rhetorica ad Herennium. It is unprecedented in range and depth as a consideration of the place of classical rhetoric in medieval culture, and will serve to revise views of a period seen until recently as largely indifferent to the values of 'eloquence'. The main body of the volume is composed of a series of ground-breaking studies of the relationship between Ciceronian rhetoric and a wide range of intellectual traditions and cultural practices, including dialectic, law, conduct theory, memory, poetics and practical composition teaching, preaching, ars dictaminis, and political oratory. Also included are important contextualizing essays on the commentary tradition of the Ciceronian juvenilia, on the textual history and manuscript transmission of Cicero's rhetorical works, and on the Latin and vernacular traditions of Ciceronian rhetoric in Italy. The volume concludes with an annotated appendix of illustrative texts containing extracts from the commentary tradition on Ciceronian rhetoric, the majority previously unavailable in print.

Contents:

Part 1 Origins, Definitions, and Diffusion

Chapter 1 The Medieval and Early Renaissance Study of Cicero's De inventione and the Rhetorica ad Herennium: Commentaries and Contexts / John O. Ward 3

Appendix Catena Glosses on the De inventione of Cicero and the Pseudo-Ciceronian Rhetorica ad Herennium from the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries 70

Chapter 2 Reading Between the Lines: The Textual History and Manuscript Transmission of Cicero's Rhetorical Works / Ruth Taylor-Briggs 77

Chapter 3 Ciceronian Rhetoric in Late Medieval Italy: The Latin and Vernacular Traditions / Virginia Cox 109

Appendix Ciceronian Rhetoric in the Vernacular in Italy, 1260-1500 136

Part 2 Influences and Interrelationships: Contexts for the Utilization of the Ciceronian Rhetorical Juvenilia and Their Commentary Tradition

Chapter 4 Ciceronian Rhetoric and Ethics: Conduct Literature and 'Speaking Well' / Mark D. Johnston 147

Chapter 5 Rhetoric and Dialectic / Karin Margareta Fredborg 165

Chapter 6 Ciceronian Rhetoric and the Law / Hanns Hohmann 193

Chapter 7 Rhetorical memoria in Commentary and Practice / Mary Carruthers 209

Chapter 8 The Ciceronian Rhetorical Tradition and Medieval Literary Theory / Rita Copeland 239

Chapter 9 Latin Composition Textbooks and Ad Herennium Glossing: The Missing Link? / Martin Camargo 267

1 Ancient and Medieval Rhetorical Texts Discussed 280

2 'Rhetorical Colors' Treated in the Works Discussed 281

3 Treatments of a Sample Figure (repetitio) Compared 283

4 Ancient Rhetorics Cited or Quoted in Tria sunt Ch. 12 (Worcester Cathedral, Chapter Library MS Q.79, fols 143v-50r) 286

Chapter 10 Poetics, Narration, and Imitation: Rhetoric as ars aplicabilis / Paivi Mehtonen 289

Chapter 11 Medieval Thematic Preaching: A Ciceronian Second Coming / Margaret Jennings 313

Chapter 12 The Rhetorical Juvenilia of Cicero and the artes dictaminis / Gian Carlo Alessio 335

Chapter 13 Communication, Consensus, and Conflict: Rhetorical Precepts, the ars concionandi, and Social Ordering in Late Medieval Italy / Stephen J. Milner 365

Appendix Examples of zibaldoni Containing Sample Orations and Other Rhetorically Related Material 402

Appendix The Commentaries in Action / Virginia Cox, John O. Ward 409

1 The Preface to Victorinus' De inventione Commentary 409

2 The Preface to the Ad Herennium Gloss by Alanus (of Lille?) from MS London British Library Harley 6324 413

3 The Preface to the Ad Herennium Commentary by Guarino da Verona 427

4 The Doctrine of insinuatio, or the 'indirect opening' 430

5 The tertium genus narrationis 445

6 Attitudes towards Antiquity: The Gloss on the Lucius Saturninus Episode (Ad Herennium 1.12.21, the legal status of definition) 452

7 Attitudes towards Antiquity: the color demonstratio (elocutio) 464.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [469]-520) and indexes.

ISBN:

9004131779

OCLC:

65978690

Publisher Number:

9789004131774