Classical rhetoric in the Middle Ages : the Medieval rhetors and their art 400-1300, with manuscript survey to 1500 CE / by John O. Ward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ward, John O., 1940- author.

Series:

International studies in the history of rhetoric ; v. 10.

International studies in the history of rhetoric, 1875-1148 ; volume 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric, Medieval.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Physical Description:

xvii, 706 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

"Classical Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: The Medieval Rhetors and Their Art 400-1300, with Manuscript Survey to 1500 CE is a completely updated version of John Ward's much-used doctoral thesis of 1972, and is the definitive treatment of this fundamental aspect of medieval and rhetorical culture. It is commonly believed that medieval writers were interested only in Christian truth, not in Graeco-Roman methods of 'persuasion' to whatever viewpoint the speaker/writer wanted. Dr Ward, however, investigates the content of well over one thousand medieval manuscripts and shows that medieval writers were fully conscious of and much dependent upon Graeco-Roman rhetorical methods of persuasion. The volume then demonstrates why and to what purpose this use of classical rhetoric took place.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Rhetoric Medieval and Modern

The Ad Herennium and the Rhetorical Works of Cicero and Quintilian in Relation to the Rhetorical Interests of the Middle Ages

The Textbooks and Rhetorical Instruction from Late Antiquity to the Eleventh Century

The Textbooks and Rhetorical Instruction from the Later Eleventh to the Thirteenth Century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Ward, John O., 1940- Classical Rhetoric in the Middle Ages.

ISBN:

9789004368057

9004368051

OCLC:

1028823189

Publisher Number:

99979452895