Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 706 Seiten)
ISBN:
9789004368071
Series Statement:
International studies in the history of rhetoric 10
Content:
"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.--
Content:
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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004368057
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ward, John O., 1940 - Classical rhetoric in the Middle Ages Leiden : Brill, 2019 ISBN 9789004368057
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Rhetorik
;
Geschichte 400-1300
DOI:
10.1163/9789004368071
URL:
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