Emotion and the history of rhetoric in the Middle Ages / Rita Copeland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Copeland, Rita, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric, Medieval--History and criticism.

Rhetoric, Medieval.

Emotions in literature.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Latin language--History.

Latin language.

History.

Latin literature--History and criticism.

Latin literature.

Latin literature, Medieval and modern--History and criticism.

Latin literature, Medieval and modern.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

415 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and swaying emotion. The history of rhetoric provides a continuous structure by which we can measure how emotions were understood, articulated, and mobilized under various historical circumstances and social contracts. This book is about how rhetoric in the West from Late Antiquity to the later Middle Ages represented the role of emotion in shaping persuasions. It is the first book-length study of medieval rhetoric and the emotions, coloring in what has largely been a blank space between about 600 CE and the cusp of early modernity. Rhetoric in the Middle Ages, as in other periods, constituted the gateway training for anyone engaged in emotionally persuasive writing. Medieval rhetorical thought on emotion has multiple strands of influence and sedimentations of practice. The earliest and most persistent tradition treated emotional persuasion as a property of surface stylistic effect, which can be seen in the medieval rhetorics of poetry and prose, and in literary production. But the impact of Aristotelian rhetoric, which reached the Latin West in the thirteenth century, gave emotional persuasion a core role in reasoning, incorporating it into the key device of proof, the enthymeme. In Aristotle, medieval teachers and writers found a new rhetorical language to explain the social and psychological factors that affect an audience. With Aristotelian rhetoric, the emotions became political. The impact of Aristotle's rhetorical approach to emotions was to be felt in medieval political treatises, in poetry, and in preaching."-- Publisher website.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Before the Middle Ages: Emotion from Invention to Style

1.1. Affectio in the Tradition of the De inventione: Rhetorical Reasoning and Moral Philosophy

1.2. Pity and Indignation in the Tradition of De inventione

1.3. Masters of Style in Late Antiquity

2. Christian and Literary Rhetorics of the Early Middle Ages: Emotion as the Property of Style

2.1. Augustine's De doctrina Christiana Book 4

2.2. Macrobius' Saturnalia: Inculcating Love for Virgil

2.3. Cassiodorus' Expositio psalmorum: Shared Affection for the Psalms

2.4. From Isidore to Bede: Regression and Internalization

2.5. Ambiguous Impact: Onulf of Speyer

3. Emotion in the Rhetorical Arts and Literary Culture C.1070

C.1400

3.1. Teaching Emotional Style in the Arts of Poetry and Prose C.1070

C.1215

3.2. Anthologies of Style: Love Letters and Poetry

3.3. Literary Impact: Chaucer, Petrarch, Chaucer

4. Aristotle's Rhetoric in the Latin West: The Fortunes of the Pathe

4.1. Pathos and Enthymeme in Aristotle's Rhetoric

4.2. The Fortunes of the Rhetoric in Context: Ancient Philosophies of the Passions

4.3. Al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes on Emotion in the Rhetoric

4.4. The Latin Rhetoric and Its Reception: Moral Philosophy and Giles of Rome's Commentary

4.5. Giles' Commentary in Context: The Rhetoric and Medieval Philosophies of the Passions

5. De regimineprincipum: Emotion, Persuasion, and Political Thought

5.1. Figuralis et grossus

5.2. A Political Rhetoric of the Emotions

5.3. Enthymematic Reasoning

6. Political Poetics and the Aristotelian Turn: Dante, Chaucer, and Hoccleve

6.1. The Poetry of Enthymeme in the Convivio

6.2. Enthymematic Oratory in the Knight's Tale

6.3. Emotion and Political Argument in Hoccleves Regiment of Princes

7. Preaching, Emotion, and the Aristotelian Turn

7.1. The Rhetoric and De regimine principum in Clerical Hands

7.2. Emotional Appeals and the Arts of Preaching

7.3. Two Readers of the Rhetoric: Engelbert of Admont and Mathias of Linkoping

7.4. Piers the Plowman Meets the Rhetoric: Pastoral Readers and Emotion

8. Epilogue: Mixed Rhetorics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-403) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780192845122

0192845128

OCLC:

1258071456

Publisher Number:

99989884159