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      Essays on Medieval Rhetoric
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      Essays on Medieval Rhetoric book

      ByMartin Camargo
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2012
      eBook Published 31 December 2017
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351219389
      Pages 336
      eBook ISBN 9781351219389
      Subjects Communication Studies, Humanities, Language & Literature
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      Camargo, M. (2012). Essays on Medieval Rhetoric (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351219389

      ABSTRACT

      Originally published between 1981 and 2003, the thirteen essays collected here cover topics in medieval rhetoric from its origins in late antiquity through the end of the Middle Ages. Most of the essays are concerned with the teaching of prose composition, especially the art of letter writing known as the ars dictaminis, and many of them focus on specific textbooks that were used for such instruction, in particular those composed in England from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries. Individual essays are devoted to works by major figures such as Saint Augustine, Peter of Blois, and Geoffrey of Vinsauf; to teaching programmes at important academic centres such as Oxford and Bologna; and to such topics as the relationship between the art of letter writing and the art of poetry, the oral dimension of medieval epistolography, the manuscript traditions of influential textbooks, medieval genre terminology, and the position of medieval rhetoric within a continuous disciplinary history rooted in classical rhetoric.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter I|14 pages

      Defining Medieval Rhetoric

      chapter II|16 pages

      “Non solum sibi sed aliis etiam”: Neoplatonism and Rhetoric in Saint Augustine’s. De doctrina christiana

      chapter III|17 pages

      Where’s the Brief?: The Ars Dictaminis and Reading/Writing Between the Lines

      chapter IV|13 pages

      The Variesties of Prose Dictamen as Defined by the Dictatores

      chapter V|30 pages

      The Pedagogy of the Dictatores

      chapter VI|24 pages

      “Si dictare velis”: Versified Artes dictandi and Late Medieval Writing Pedagogy *

      chapter VII|12 pages

      Between Grammar and Rhetoric: Composition Teaching at Oxford and Bologna in the Late Middle Ages

      chapter VIII|23 pages

      Beyond the Libri Catoniani: Models of Latin Prose Style at Oxford University Ca. 1400*

      chapter IX|21 pages

      Tria sunt: The Long and the Short of Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s Documentum de modo et arte dictandi et versificandi

      chapter X|53 pages

      A Twelfth-Century Treatise on ‘Dictamen’ and Metaphor

      chapter XI|28 pages

      Toward a Comprehensive Art of Written Discourse: Geoffrey of Vinsauf and the Ars Dictaminis

      chapter XII|26 pages

      The Libellus de arte dictandi rhetorice Attributed to Peter of Blois

      chapter XIII|23 pages

      The English Manuscripts of Bernard of Meung’s “Flores Dictaminum”

      chapter |3 pages

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