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 ; v. 2.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Rhetoric, Medieval.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius--Criticism and interpretation.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

Physical Description:

xvii, 545 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Language Note:

English

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, of the two dominant classical rhetorical textbooks of the time, Cicero’s early De inventione , and the contemporary ‘pseudo-Ciceronian’ Rhetorica ad Herennium . The volume is unprecedented in range and depth as a presentation 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, most of which have not been previously available in printing.

Contents:

pt. 1. Origins, definitions, and diffusion

pt. 2. Influences and interrelationships : contexts for the utilization of the Ciceronian rhetorical juvenilia and their commentary tradition.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

1-281-38437-2

9786611384371

90-474-0464-5

OCLC:

65978690

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047404644 DOI