
A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620
Peter Mack(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 25. April 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-0-19-967999-7 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first comprehensive History of Renaissance Rhetoric. Rhetoric, a training in writing and delivering speeches, was a fundamental part of renaissance culture and education. It is concerned with a wide range of issues, connected with style, argument, self-presentation, the arousal of emotion, voice and gesture. More than 3,500 works on rhetoric were published in a total of over 15,000 editions between 1460 and 1700. The renaissance was a great age of innovation in rhetorical theory. This book shows how renaissance scholars recovered and circulated classical rhetoric texts, how they absorbed new doctrines from Greek rhetoric, and how they adapted classical rhetorical teaching to fit modern conditions. It traces the development of specialised manuals in letter-writing, sermon composition and style, alongside accounts of the major Latin treatises in the field by Lorenzo Valla, George Trapezuntius, Rudolph Agricola, Erasmus, Philip Melanchthon, Johann Sturm, Juan Luis Vives, Peter Ramus, Cyprien Soarez, Justus Lipsius, Gerard Vossius and many others.
Contents List
Contents List
Reviews / Votes
In A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 13801620 Mack makes those important Latin Renaissance rhetoric manuals visible, in the process bringing to our attention some important works in the history of rhetoric ... Peter Mack has done more than anyone to make this important literature available and accessible for our age. * Arthur E. Walzer, Rhetoric Society Quarterly * an ambitious compendium of rhetorical history that brings a broad corpus together ... Mack's book encapsulates many of the essential rhetorical works of the Renaissance, providing insightful and articulate overviews of its primary sources along with convienient groupings to help the novice scholar make sense of these immense and diverse sources. * Amanda J. Gerber, Comitatus *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Scholars and students of the history of rhetoric, Renaissance Italian, French, and English literature; Renaissance historians, especially historians of ideas
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2 black and white halftones
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-967999-7 (9780199679997)
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Person
Peter Mack, Director of the Warburg Institute, University of London; Professor of English, University of Warwick
Author
Director of the Warburg Institute, University of London; Professor of English, University of Warwick
Content
1. Introduction and Origins ; 2. Diffusion and Reception of Classical Rhetoric ; 3. Italy 1390-1480 ; 4. Agricola ; 5. Erasmus ; 6. Northern Europe 1519-1545: The Age of Melanchthon ; 7. Northern Europe 1545-1580: Ramus and company ; 8. Southern Europe in the Sixteenth Century ; 9. New Syntheses 1600-1620: Keckermann, Vossius and Caussin ; 10. Manuals of Tropes and Figures ; 11. Letter-writing manuals ; 12. Preaching manuals and Legal dialectics ; 13. Vernacular Rhetorics ; 14. . Conclusion: Renaissance Rhetoric ; Bibliography of Secondary Works ; Glossary of Rhetorical and Dialectical Terms