A history of Renaissance rhetoric, 1380-1620/

Main Author: Mack, Peter, 1955-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 2013
Series:Oxford-Warburg studies
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and origins
  • Diffusion and reception of Classical rhetoric
  • Italy 1390-1480
  • Rudolph Agricola
  • Erasmus
  • Northern Europe 1519-1545 : the age of Melanchthon
  • Northern Europe 1545-1580 : Ramus and company
  • Southern Europe in the sixteenth century
  • New syntheses 1600-1620 : Keckermann, Vossius, and Caussin
  • Manuals of tropes and figures
  • Letter-writing manuals
  • Preaching manuals and legal dialectics
  • Vernacular rhetorics
  • Conclusion : Renaissance rhetoric.