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Emotion and the history of rhetoric in the Middle Ages /

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Rhetoric is an engine of social discourse and the art charged with generating and swaying emotion. The history of rhetoric provides a continuous structure by which we can measure how emotions were understood, articulated and mobilized under various historical circumstances and social contracts. This...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Copeland, Rita (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2021].
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture.
Subjects:
Rhetoric, Medieval > History and criticism.
Emotions in literature.
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Latin language > History.
Latin literature > History and criticism.
Latin literature, Medieval and modern > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Before the Middle Ages: emotion from invention to style
  • Christian and literary rhetorics of the Early Middle Ages: emotion as the property of style
  • Emotion in the rhetorical arts and literary culture c. 1070-c.1400
  • Aristotle's Rhetoric in the Latin west: the fortunes of the path?
  • De regimine principum: emotion, persuasion, and political thought
  • Political poetics and the Aristotelian turn: Dante, Chaucer, and Hoccleve
  • Preaching, emotion, and the Aristotelian turn
  • Epilogue: Mixed rhetorics.