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Book SynopsisClassical 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 ContentsPreliminary Statement Prefatory Introduction to the Volume [A] Appendix to Footnotes 7, 11, 26, 132, 136, and 139 Prefatory Introduction to the Volume [B] Ciceronian Rhetoric and Oratory from St. Augustine to Guarino da Verona Appendix to Footnote 17 1 Rhetoric Medieval and Modern Appendix to Footnotes 3 and 38 2 The Ad Herennium and the Rhetorical Works of Cicero and Quintilian in Relation to the Rhetorical Interests of the Middle Ages 3 The Textbooks and Rhetorical Instruction from Late Antiquity to the Eleventh Century 1 Late Antiquity 2 The Seventh to the Eleventh Centuries 3 The Eleventh Century Appendix to Footnotes 1, 6, 8, 26, 85, 101, 102, 172, 252, 327, and 342 4 The Textbooks and Rhetorical Instruction from the Later Eleventh to the Thirteenth Century 1 Rhetoric and Dialectic 2 Wisdom and Eloquence: The Integrated Scheme of Knowledge 3 Rhetoric and Civil Science (Politics) 4 Rhetoric and Law 5 Rhetoric and Dictamen 6 Rhetoric and the Colores: the Art of Prose and Verse Composition 7 Rhetoric and the Textbooks 8 The Study of Classical Rhetorical Theory in the North 1175–1300: The Universities and Mendicant Studia Appendix to Footnotes 72, 73, 82, 84, 112, 144, 152, 202, 297, 349, 356, 445, 512, 534, 535, 580, 599, 641, 719, 739, 761, 766, 769, 774, 777, and 813 5 Conclusion Appendix A ’G. Materia Tullii’: The Durham Dean and Chapter (Cathedral) Library C.IV.29 Glossator Manegold and Martianus Capella Appendix B John O. Ward vita, and Abstract, Epigraphs and Preface for John O. Ward’s Original Doctoral Dissertation Appendix C John Ward: Pronuntiatio or Delivery in the Commentaries on the Pseudo-Ciceronian Rhetorica ad Herennium in Medieval and Early Renaissance Periods Bibliography Acknowledgements and Abbreviations Used Index
