Classical Rhetoric in the Middle Ages

The Medieval Rhetors and Their Art 400-1300, with Manuscript Survey to 1500 CE
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36805-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 706 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1148 g

Reihe: International Studies in the History of Rhetoric

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ward, John O

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preliminary Statement

Prefatory Introduction to the Volume [A]

Appendix to Footnotes 7, 11, 26, 132, 136, and 139

Prefatory Introduction to the Volume [B]

Ciceronian Rhetoric and Oratory from St. Augustine to Guarino da Verona

Appendix to Footnote 17

1 Rhetoric Medieval and Modern

Appendix to Footnotes 3 and 38

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

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

1 Late Antiquity

2 The Seventh to the Eleventh Centuries

3 The Eleventh Century

Appendix to Footnotes 1, 6, 8, 26, 85, 101, 102, 172, 252, 327, and 342

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

1 Rhetoric and Dialectic

2 Wisdom and Eloquence: The Integrated Scheme of Knowledge

3 Rhetoric and Civil Science (Politics)

4 Rhetoric and Law

5 Rhetoric and Dictamen

6 Rhetoric and the Colores: the Art of Prose and Verse Composition

7 Rhetoric and the Textbooks

8 The Study of Classical Rhetorical Theory in the North 1175–1300: The Universities and Mendicant Studia

Appendix to Footnotes 72, 73, 82, 84, 112, 144, 152, 202, 297, 349, 356, 445, 512, 534, 535, 580, 599, 641, 719, 739, 761, 766, 769, 774, 777, and 813

5 Conclusion

Appendix A

’G. Materia Tullii’: The Durham Dean and Chapter (Cathedral) Library C.IV.29 Glossator

Manegold and Martianus Capella

Appendix B

John O. Ward vita, and Abstract, Epigraphs and Preface for John O. Ward’s Original Doctoral Dissertation

Appendix C

John Ward: Pronuntiatio or Delivery in the Commentaries on the Pseudo-Ciceronian Rhetorica ad Herennium in Medieval and Early Renaissance Periods

Bibliography

Acknowledgements and Abbreviations Used

Index

Über Autor(innen)

John Ward holds a Ph.D from the University of Toronto, Canada, but did his B.A (Hons) at Melbourne University. He was born in Melbourne. He taught medieval European history at the University of Sydney from 1968 to 2003.