A renaissance of rhetoric in late medieval Oxford : treatises of the Oxford rhetoricians, 1364-ca. 1435 /

This book documents an unprecedented effort to produce new treatises on rhetoric at Oxford in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Part 1 includes chapters on the origins, causes and eventual decline of this "renaissance," as well as on the new textbooks and their authors, tradition and...

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Main Author: Camargo, Martin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Latin
Language Notes:Introductory chapters in English ; original texts in Latin with parallel English translation.
Published: Toronto : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, [2025].
Series:Studies and texts (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies) ; 240.
Toronto studies in medieval and early modern rhetoric ; 2.
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Summary:This book documents an unprecedented effort to produce new treatises on rhetoric at Oxford in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Part 1 includes chapters on the origins, causes and eventual decline of this "renaissance," as well as on the new textbooks and their authors, tradition and innovation in their rhetorical precepts and the pedagogical contexts in which they were deployed. Part 2 consists of Latin editions and facing English translations of eight rhetorical treatises. Four of the Latin texts have never been printed before, and all eight are translated here for the first time.
Physical Description:x, 584 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [563]-576) and index.
ISBN:9780888442406
0888442408