Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Ward, John O., 1940-

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

xvii, 706 pages; 25 cm.

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."--

Series Statement

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

Uniform Title

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

Alternative Title

Medieval rhetors and their art 400-1300

Subject

• Cicero, Marcus Tullius > Influence
• Quintilian > Influence
• Quintilian
• Cicero, Marcus Tullius
• Rhetorica ad Herennium
• Rhetoric, Medieval
• Rhetoric, Ancient
• Education, Medieval
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Note

• Based on the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Toronto, 1972), originally presented under the title: Artificiosa eloquentia in the Middle Ages : the study of Cicero's De inventione, the Ad Herennium and Quintilian's De institutione oratoria from the early Middle Ages to the thirteenth century--Appendix B, page 475.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 20-3058

ISBN

• 9789004368057
• 9004368051
• 9789004368071 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2018019426
• 40028823317

OCLC

1028823189

Author

Ward, John O., 1940- author.

Title

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

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

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

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

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Ward, John O., 1940- Classical Rhetoric in the Middle Ages. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] 9789004368071 (DLC) 2018024974

Other Standard Identifier

40028823317

Research Call Number

JFE 20-3058