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The Rhetoric of Cicero in Its Medieval And Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition

By Virginia Cox , John O. Ward

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2006
ISBN
9004131779, 9789004131774, 9789047404644
Open Library ID
OL9084728M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4432245 bytes)
Series
Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition
Pages
566\566
Topic
History
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

In this volume an expert team seeks to establish whether medieval and early Renaissance rhetorical theory and practice were innovative or derivative (from Graeco-Roman rhetoric), by looking at a unique range of key topics that underlie the postmodern culture of our own day: the medieval and early Renaissance study of Cicero's ''De inventione'' and the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium''; the textual history and manuscript transmission of Cicero's rhetorical works; the Latin and vernacular traditions of Ciceronian rhetoric in late medieval Italy, Ciceronian rhetoric and ethics, dialectic, law, memory theory and practice, literary theory, Latin composition textbooks, poetics, narration, and imitation, thematic preaching, the art of letterwriting, and the art of assembly oratory in late medieval Italy. There is a valuable appendix of illustrative material from the Cicero commentaries not available elsewhere.

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