A history of Renaissance rhetoric 1380 - 1620

Describes the most important individual contributions to the development of Renaissance rhetoric and analyzes the new ideas which Renaissance thinkers contributed to rhetorical theory

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Main Author: Mack, Peter (Author)
Document Type: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press , 2011
Edition:1. publ.
Series:Oxford-Warburg studies
Subjects:
Rhetorik
Geschichte 1380-1620
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Author Notes:Peter Mack
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.

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