Classical Rhetoric in the Middle Ages : : The Medieval Rhetors and Their Art 400-1300, with Manuscript Survey to 1500 CE / / by John O. Ward.

• VerfasserIn: Ward, John O., 1940-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: International Studies in the History of Rhetoric 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (724 pages).

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Prolegomenon to the Frontispiece -- Preliminary Statement -- Prefatory Introduction to the Volume [A] -- Prefatory Introduction to the Volume [B] -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Back Matter -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Bibliography -- Index.