Three Medieval Rhetorical Arts. - MURPHY, J.J., (ed.),
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'The texts, intended to be representative of three distinct kinds of mediaeval rhetorical textbook, the Ars Dictaminis, the Ars Poetica, and the Ars Praedicandi, are: the Rationes Dictandi by an anonymous fourteenth-century Bolognese writer; Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Poetria Nova; and the Englishman Robert of Basevorn's Forma Praedicandi. This is an excellent choice, for these works are not only typical of their genre. As well as translating the Rationes Dictandi Professor Murphy has provided a short introduction on mediaeval rhetoric. In it he shows how rhetorical theory in the Middle Ages derives from Aristotle, from Cicero?s rhetorical books and the Epistual ad Herennius, and from what he calls the ?grammatical tradition? of donates, Parisian and Horaces? Ars Poetica. (?) This is an excellent introduction to mediaeval rhetorical theory by someone who is completely master of the field. It is a clear and judicious account (?), and will be most useful to the non-specialist. (?) The translation of the Poetry Nova,...
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Berkeley (...), 1971. XXIII,235p. Original burgundy cloth. Spine gilt titled. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: MURPHY, J.J., (ed.),] [Uitgever: University Of California Press] [Jaar: 1971] [Titel: Three Medieval Rhetorical Arts.]
